Late last night, after the football game, my father went to his office. He sat at his computer, near the glass doors that open onto our patio, and did a few last things on the internet. Outside, it started to rain ( Read more... )

This weekend I got a call from my dear old roomie Kate (the one who lives in England near the town of Snape) saying she had come to the states for a wedding and did I want to drive down to meet her at her parents' summer house in Rhode Island one day this week? Naturally, I said YES with great excitement ( Read more... )

So many things to post about and so little time. I ought to be vacuuming right now.

Last Saturday my sis, her kids, saralinda and her baby & I went to a local orchard to pick our own strawberries. It was great fun, with cuteness aplenty. ( Pictures. )

My sister asked me to post on her journal when her baby was born, so I didn't even have the chance to post the news here: my FOURTH niece entered the world yesterday morning at 11:43 AM!

( BRIDGET! )

Home! Home at my house, and have been so for a day and a half now. Got in to the airport quite early, which would have been nice if the ground crew at the airport had not apparently said they'd be damned if they were going to get our bags early. So after about an hour in Baggage Claim staring at an unmoving conveyor belt, I finally got my ( Read more... )

Hello from Virginia!

I'm at my Uncle's house, preparing to spend Thanksgiving outside New England for the first time in my life. The first half of the 12-hour drive here wasn't too bad... but the second was dreary. However, by making my throat a raspy mess reading aloud from Our Mutual Friend for hours while my parents took turns driving (next ( Read more... )

This morning I was wearing a skirt just like the one my avatar is wearing! This filled me with an unreasonable sense of accomplishment.

Then I spilled dirty dishwater all over the skirt. This fills me with a just sense of chagrin.

And now some cheer for what is, in my state anyway, a gray and rainy day:
( HALLOWEEN CUTENESS OVERLOAD!! )

I baked ( Read more... )

We have family visiting, all sorts of family, overrunning the house in a pleasant sort of way: my uncle (father's brother) and his two granddaughters (teenagers) are up from Virginia, the girls' mother (my first cousin) and her husband will be up soon with their other two children, and my aunt (mother's sister) is arriving tomorrow to stay for a ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, tinuviellen!

( A Photographic Birthday Song especially for you... )