my journey, destination unknown
Though I did not accomplish everything on my November project list, I made good forward strides, enough to make me feel as though I am moving forward once again, and that gives me renewed energy. And now, it is time to start up on the December tasks! December: December’s topic is “Health”. I have other…
With our many visits to NYC and Paris and our year in DC, I’ve always imagined a life of living locally. But somehow, I just can’t seem to manage it yet. Today, I read this story in the New Yorker about a local mozzarella place in Manhattan — and why it has gone out of…
We celebrated a few week 48 holidays…, including National Parfait Day (Nov 25) and National Mousse Day (Nov 30). Coming up this week: 2: National Fritters Day and National Mutt Day Zucchini & Corn Fritters National Mutt Day 3: Giving Tuesday 4: National Cookie Day and National Dice Day National Dice Day 5: Repeal Day…
Slowly but surely getting back into it. We celebrated a few week 47 holidays, including National Peanut Butter Fudge Day (Nov 20). Coming up this week: 25: National Parfait Day Breakfast buffet: National parfait day Pumpkin Mousse Parfaits 26: National Cake Day 27: Hanukkah 28: National French Toast Day/Thanksgiving 29: Buy Nothing Day Buy Nothing…
I took some time off from the celebrations during the summer and now that I’m feeling a bit caught up with my to-do list and am able to keep up with ongoing tasks, I think it is time to try to pick up again on it. Coming up this week: 19: World Toilet Day World…
We spent a couple weeks in Japan, visiting Okinawa, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Miyajima, Hakone, Tokyo and even TokyoDisney! Trip diary: Day 18 (2 Jul 2008): Tokyo > Home Day 17 (1 Jul 2008): Tokyo Day 16 (30 Jun 2008): Tokyo Disneyland Day 15 (29 Jun 2008): Hakone to Tokyo Day 14 (28 Jun 2008): Hakone (+…
As we are now halfway through this month, I’m ready to asses where I’ve gotten on my Happiness Project tasks for this month. Overall, things have been moving along vey nicely. I’ve tackled a number of our “trouble spots” including the junk drawer and more. I would still love to get the “art dresser” cleaned…
Now that I feel slightly more in control of my time on occasion, I’ve started to move forward a bit faster with working on our apartment. We moved back in February, and we seemed to do just the bare minimum we needed to do. We’ve worked a bit on the girls’ room, so they now…
This past weekend, Chloe’s gymnastics gym hosted the big “state meet” for a number of levels, not including Chloe’s. We “gym parents” have been inundated with emails for weeks now in regards to what we are required to donated and what our required volunteer shifts will be. I find it a bit off-putting to call…
The light in the early morning and evening is always so lovely, especially at the beach!
A couple weekends ago, I did something that I’ve never done before. I packed up Evie with me and Phelix, and we went off on our own little adventure. For years, my adventures almost always included the girls. I’ve gone on a couple of trips without them, but not off on my own. I’ve always…
summary posts: september break – sep 2013 pretty light – 8 sept 2013 go fly a kite – 9 sep 2013 try and try again – 10 sep 2013 savannah – 10 sep 2013 fort pulaski – 11 sep 2013 eating out photos: Picasa photos
summary posts: photo friday: lieutenant island photo friday: whale watching photos: Picasa photos
A couple of weeks ago, I had a breakthrough : I conquered my to-do list! Well, not completely, as it has a revolving door of of things that I need to do, but I managed to finally cross off all the nagging things that I’ve needed to get to RIGHT NOW! In the past two…
A couple of months ago, we headed up to Red Top Mountain State Park. So close to Atlanta, yet we had never been! Phelix and I got there first and set up the campsite. Rob and the girls came later after gymnastics. Camille and I had a lovely weekend of unwinding at the campsite for…
As the year is starting to come to a close, I’ve been looking over our various lists and projects, figuring out what we haven’t done yet that we had hoped to do this year. On Chloe’s 2013 list was the Yellow River Game Ranch. Although we did spend a coupe hours there back in February…
As long-time members at and regular visitors to the Atlanta Botanical Garden, we’ve watched it go through some major changes through the past decade. I am always playing old-timer with the girls — “Remember when the entrance used to be here, then there and then over there?” “Remember when this used to be the gift…
This weekend is the Fall Smoke/Carbon Monoxide Detector Blitz here in Decatur. As a member of the Fire CAPS (Citizens Assisting Public Safety) team, I am welcomed and encouraged to join along. While in the past, I’ve ridden along in one of the big firetrucks, yesterday I was lucky enough to get to ride with…
For our summer vacation this year, we headed up to Cape Cod to join my parents and sister and Luis for a week at the beach. The house my mom found was on a lovely little island called “Lieutenant Island” on the bay side of Wellfleet. This “for residents only” island is connected to the…
I’ll admit it; I have taken *terrible* care of my teeth. Nonetheless, I’ve been extremely lucky on the dental front. As a child, it was easy for me to go to the dentist, despite the 12 hour trip to get to my appointment. My granddaddy was my dentist and that worked out quite well for…