Today we went to brunch with my inlaws then headed over to my sister’s house for some football watching and family togethering. My nephew Jake was sick with a fever (a present he brought home from his first week at pre-school), but Joey was putting on the charm. He has the most expressive little face!…

I love things that are either huge or teeny. So I was delighted when they were passing out wee samples of some pumpkin frappucino at Star*bucks today. Complete with teeny little straw. In stark contrast is the cake my dear husband purchased when we went grocery shopping later. He is a sucker for birthday cake…

Well, tropical storm Tammy won. She came ashore and beat up Wilmington pretty good. My aunt and uncle emailed saying there were flooded streets and wind damage and don’t come. So we didn’t go. We didn’t want to take the pugs down there and ride for 5 stressful hours through a monsoon just to sit…

Once upon a time we were two people with two incomes and normal expenses. We didn’t know we’d have a ginormous adoption bill to pay, or hospital bills from multiple surgeries. We didn’t know we’d have fertility drugs to buy or specialists to see. So if we wanted something, we’d usually figure out a way…

I was visiting my sister Sara Sunday and she showed me the coolest thank you gift she had just received. Sara had taken some food and goodies to her neighbor who had just given birth to her 4th child, and the neighbor brought over the cutest thing. How this woman had time to whip up…

My nephew Jake started pre-school today. How on earth? He’s only 2 & 1/2. He’s so excited though and showed off his turtle backpack and his little lunch box on Sunday. So cute. Man, it seems like he was just born! Joey’s now 8 months old. It hit me that he’s about the age my…

As part of my fall cleaning pre-homestudy spree, I pulled all the slip covers off the sofa and arm chair and washed them. Ike and Kea were not thrilled. This meant I found their secret hiding place for rawhides. While I was putting the slipcovers into the machine, Kea made sure to remedy the rawhide…

Our Social Worker, Teresa, visited this morning and it went great. The house looks great and we got a lot of things crossed off our home project list like paint mailbox post, paint front door, transplant flowers for front porch, paint both up and downstairs hallways, the half bath etc. Teresa was so friendly and…

This is what our front door looked like when we bought the house. Country blue and in dire need of a good sanding and paint job. Frankly it was in dire need of a mercy killing, but a new door is not in the budget. So I painted it. And this is what happened: At…