My mom is the youngest of two children. Two girls. No boys. The two girls had six girls between them. No boys. No nephews. No brothers. When we get together, it’s a high estrogen event. My three sisters + me + our two cousins and our moms. Aunt Sally turned 79 in May. Mom hosted … Read More
A weekend’s worth of celebrating
Another year around the sun complete, and another year begun. Celebrating began on Thursday morning. Kicking off the day with fresh-out-of-the-oven-homemade muffins made by a co-worker to enjoy during our weekly staff meeting at work, made the day just that much sweeter. Friday morning (the actual day) I woke to 6.5 inches of snow and was … Read More
Two in One
We celebrated two big days on Sunday. Father’s Day and a birthday. Our Natey Boy was born on June 17th (a Wednesday) 25 years ago (whoa…those 25 trips around the sun went fast!) In the past 25 years the two special days have only landed on the same day four times. 1990. 2001. 2007. 2012. The kid … Read More
Birthday celebration
Mr. D celebrated another trip around the sun today. Which means he is now as old as me. Yeah, yeah, I know. I robbed the cradle. For his birthday meal, he requested: 1. Homemade pizza … Read More
Saturday’s mail
For some odd reason, we never walked down to our mailbox yesterday to get the mail. Maybe we were too busy painting. Or doing taxes. It wasn’t until nearly 7:00 PM on our return from church that we picked up our mail….to find a large, long, and flat package sticking out of our mailbox. A … Read More
No where warm…
While several of our friends are in places like Mexico, Florida and Hawaii enjoying the tropics this weekend, Mr. D and I decided to go south for the weekend too. So while it snowed in Rochester, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois…. We drove through it all. To reach our SOUTHERN destination. Just 60 miles SW … Read More
a new pad
Mr. D recently celebrated a birthday. Unfortunately his gift arrived post-birthday. My bad. My plan was to purchase his gift the day he picked me up at the Minneapolis airport on my return from Cincinnati. (It was the day before his birthday) The only place that had the birthday gift I was in search … Read More
Two guys
For DIY Guy, celebrating Father’s Day often means sharing the day with his son — who was born very close to Father’s Day. He doesn’t mind a bit. On Father’s Day, Baby Girl bought her daddy a dozen doughnuts — she knows that he loves doughnuts almost as much as she does. After eating the entire box … Read More
She made me cry . . .
Baby Girl gave this book to me last week The book itself is touching — and Baby Girl took the words to a whole ‘nother level when she put her own thoughts and comments on many of the pages. From the book: A daughter needs a mom to tell her what she should expect from … Read More