Around here Mother Nature has not completely realized fall has come. Temperatures have still been pretty warm, like she is clinging onto summer with all her might. My daughter’s nose, however, knows exactly what time of year it is. We were down in the historical triangle of Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown when the first dayContinue reading “Hello Snot…I mean Autumn.”
Category Archives: Everyday Life
I wish I were a carnie
I lie. After what Du and I experienced the other day, you couldn’t pay me to work at a fair ride. I guess that really wouldn’t matter anyway since carnies don’t get paid much (or so we’ve heard) and we volunteered for this, this, sacrificial loving opportunity. Our church has a Community Day every yearContinue reading “I wish I were a carnie”
Stupid Murphy
I know I’m not the only one that this happens to. I (and you too, I’m sure) can pretty much guarantee that if I have to be somewhere at a very specific time, like the don’t be late kinda thing, “everything” will conspire against me to make me late. Well, tonight we were not onlyContinue reading “Stupid Murphy”
Lincoln and Buddhist Monks
I can combine anything can’t I. First it’s orange and chocolate. Now it’s Lincoln and Buddhism. Here’s the story. Last week I decided to take the girls into the city to picnic at a monument. This is something I’ve dreamed about doing since I found out we were moving here. It’s one of the reasonsContinue reading “Lincoln and Buddhist Monks”
Butchering becomes an art form
We recently “upgraded” our personal lap top experiences to MacBook Pros. In order to make the transition from PC to Mac as smooth and painless as possible we chose to let the “pros” at Apple transfer all of our information from our old computers to the shiny new ones. My husband just started cackling inContinue reading “Butchering becomes an art form”
A family with two kids walks into a bar…
That would be us. I follow “Arlington, VA” on Twitter and they tweeted today about a restaurant that offers 1/2 priced burgers on Tuesdays. Today being a Tuesday I thought it’d be the perfect time to try this place out. The name, for one, got my attention: Spider Kelly’s. I figured it had to beContinue reading “A family with two kids walks into a bar…”
Not So SAHM 