Tonight, if we’re lucky, a few friends (Gigi’s Daddy, QB, my friend Megan) and I will have succeeded in rounding up a large, raucous group of people to ring in the new year.
We sent out e-invitations yesterday. I’m nothing if not optimistic.
We’re hoping for a the Faberge Effect. Everyone WE know tells everyone THEY know, [...]
MP: You’re weird, Mom.
ME: You’re weirder.
MP: You’re THIS weird. (stretching arms out)
ME: You’re THIS weird. (stretching arms out further)
MP: HOW weird?
ME: You’re weird all the way to the moon.
MP: You’re weird all the way to the North Pole.
ME: You’re weird all the way to another planet.
MP: You’re weird all the way to an ALIEN VACUUM. [...]
MP: (Back of hand to forehead, high drama whine) It feels like I’m getting KILLED inside of me.
ME: Why?
MP: Because I can’t open any presents. (falls forward onto couch) I can’t WAAAIT!
I told her the wait would be worth it. And it was. Santa’s Fur Real Kitty turned out to be a HYUGE hit. Although [...]
There’s this new carpet-shampoo-broom-thing commercial that comes on TV all the time. And every time we see it, MP goes crazy, telling me I MUST have it, and how much I really do want it.
She tells me I would like it for Christmas. Because I like to clean the carpet. (Truth be told, a clean [...]
Last night, Grammy, MP and I made Christmas cookies — the sugar crash came fast and hard, and after a minor meltdown, MP was out cold. Christmas can’t come soon enough for that kid — every morning she wakes, crosses off another day on the calendar, and literally jumps for joy that we’re another day [...]
Just when the whole marriage thing and the seeming impermanence of it all had me bummin’, someone steps off that pier and takes another grand leap of faith. And mine is renewed.
My step-sister is getting married. Is this not THE best engagement photo EVER?? It was taken minutes after her boyfriend proposed on the Brooklyn [...]
About a month ago, my brother calls me at work to ask how to use Facebook. A few hours later, he calls to say he was getting a flood of Friend Requests. The next day he calls to ask why all these people he didn’t know wanted to be his friend. Twenty-four hours after signing [...]
Drum role please …
The winner of the $25 Build-A-Bear Gift Card is BETH!
Congratulations! Now go get yourself a new, unwashed bear!
Wait, that didn’t sound right.
You know what I mean.
Enjoy!
Last weekend, MP, Grammy and I went downtown to participate in the annual Christmas Stroll, a tradition that’s been around for decades. At 4:30 Santa emerges from one of the town’s historic brick buildings, and, followed by throngs of children, makes his way two blocks to the end of Main Street. Once there, he hops [...]
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