So, first things first– I'M AN AUNT! Devin Marley was born yesterday at 12:06 PM after just two pushes. He was very overdue, and much anticipated. My brother had a dream a few nights ago that his son arrived, fully talking, and said Hey, it's me. Your baby, and Ben was all, Baby! I've been wai...

  “We don’t need that!� My Zaidie glares at my mother and puts the second of two (yes, two) containers of homemade cookies back in the cardboard box from whence they came. This ritual is repeated over and over with a multitude of food products—salad dressings loaded with fat and sugar, pack...

I was going to show you photos of the Zenzi scarf today, but something very strange happened.  It rained all day.  I had almost forgotten what that windshield wiper thingy was for in the van.  So it was gloomy and wet and not good photo taking weather.  I was also going to sh...

I had no intention to post again this week since we leave in the morning for Boston to visit our son, Peter, for a few days. However, I finally viewed To the Lighthouse which had been sitting in a Netflix pile, and am delighted to recommend the film to you. Virginia Woolf has always been a fav...

I just got home from two days in Virginia, and I have SO much to say, but I just have to write a quick entry tonight and tell you to please, please not watch 'The Watchmen'. Dear GOD. Do NOT watch this film. It's, like, in the top three worst movies ever made. It's so bad it actually made me infuria...

This yarn freaks me out.  It's called Cocoon and the close up of the yarn looks like this:   That's a little TOO much like real cocoons.  I get the heebie-jeebies imagining a scarf of this stuff draped around my neck.  I'd constantly be waiting for all of them to ...

Long ago, DH once called a thesaurus a "the-ro-sis" and it cracked us up and he's called it that ever since.  And now after years of this, I find myself unable to spit out the proper pronunciation and it's driving me batty. Completely unrelated, I finished Grace's Super S...

Psst. Hi. I'm writing from bed, after everyone else has gone to sleep, just to share the conversation Jason and I had before he climbed under the covers and dozed off, because it is possibly the best conversation I've had so far this week and it's already technically Wednesday: BECCA: Okay, that was...

Friday was a success when it came to Elias versus The Wind. I came to recess. He fought back tears when it started, but I just kept encouraging him and telling him he was fine, look!, he's not blowing away!, what kind of toy do you want later?, and then moving to an arbitrary star rating system. "Ho...

Today just felt like a massive fail. I went out at noon to do a handful of errands, and each sucked in some way. Actually, the bank was successful. I deposited my last BlogHer check, and got Addie a lollipop. That was a nice starting note. Next was the post office. Valerie's birthday was days and da...