The Peyton birthday extraveganza sped along this weekend. Friday was a present opening frenzy where she got enough presents to make Christmas a looming threat of disappointment…because, everyone born in December knows you get totally get shafted one way or the other. Saturday…oh Saturday. We were treated to some tickets to attend the taping of [...]
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I am full of thankful
“Bad things have happened, but we’ve managed to endure it.” Not exactly the wonderful frame of mind one wants to take into Thanksigiving. But really? We have not had the best track record. 2005 brought a stroke for me and a fall full of physical therapy and worries of what kind of mother I would [...]
Fall Shmall
It seems like everywhere I look it’s “HEY, Welcome to fall! Aren’t you thrilled about the changing seasons! The pretty colors!! The crisp air!!! The upcoming holiday season!!!!! The mad overuse of exclamation points!!!!” It was 90 degrees in Tampa yesterday, people. It’s all palm trees, all the time. I’m having a remarkable amount of [...]
Living in the path of Hurricane Fay
I have gallon bottles of water sitting in my garage from the preparations for the year of hurricanes that was 3 years ago. Thankfully, Tampa was never hit and the worst that we suffered was a loss of power for a week. Which was awful, mind you….scrambling eggs on the grill is not something at [...]
Peyton swims!
SOOO Proud of her!
