It's been a great week. Salem and I have had a blast... she's really taken to her only child position. Tuesday I took her for a hair cut and Katherine gave her a complimentary back to school eyebrow wax. We walked through the village and she begged me NOT to go into the yarn shop. I did however apply for a job at the local coffee shop/cafe. Seems ( Read more... )

I thoroughly enjoyed it.... Salem loved it and so did Don. He said it was better than 300.... (I thought it was far better than 300 as well)

Robert DeNiro was.... very good...

the end.

raining.... wet and rainy.... it hasn't stopped since late Saturday ( Read more... )

I'm still tired.

Marna had a melt down last night.

Zoe is evil and underhanded.

Salem is counting the days til they leave for band camp.

Actually I'll help her cross the days off the calender if she'd like!

We had Marna's 'Sweet 16' party on Saturday... I thought it turned out really nice. We had a ton of people (maybe 75 or more) went through a ton of food, 5 cases of beer, 6 gallons of Sangria and about 100 jello shots. Someone fell into my mums, a guy dislocated his shoulder on the inflatable Jousting extravaganza and Marna was a gracious birthday ( Read more... )

When we were in Maine there was this woman. She reminded me totally of my mother probably in her late 60's enjoying the better things in life without limitation but being totally sensible without getting carried away maintaining a sense of decorum with the impression that she's cutting loose somewhere inside.... She wore cute little outfits capri ( Read more... )

...from Maine. Making a quick stop to do laundry, restock , mow the lawn, pull some weeds and clean the camper before we're off again ( Read more... )

We're getting ready to leave for Maine. It's one of the trips Don and I talked about since the girls were small. And yet on a different level I'm dreading it and mentally I'm dragging my feet trying to hit the slow motion button so it doesn't pass by too quickly ( Read more... )

So I've figured out how to add music to my MP3 phone and realized I could only get maybe 5 songs on there. Needless to say I purchased a 2 GB card and will be able to take my morning walk without repeating a song ( Read more... )

The pressure is mounting.... I can feel it..... this is the last week of school, they're all mine on Thursday. I tell you what... I'm afraid, very afraid ( Read more... )