I’d been thinking about doing this, and then Linda at All & Sundry posted this list, and it was easier to answer the questions than to think of ones to answer myself. A new tradition? If I can remember I did this next year ;) 1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never [...]

I should lead this off by saying that as a child, I wanted for nothing. We always had enough of everything. And then some. We weren’t OVERLY spoiled, but we were certainly not hurting either. But even with that, there were a lot of Christmases that came with a fair amount of disappointment on my [...]

Anyone who knows me, knows that I tend to avoid Halloween like the plague. I think in the 6 years we were at the condo, we handed out candy once. And that was because our friend was living with us at the time and he wanted to hand out candy. But now I have a [...]

For as long as I can remember, long before the husband and I were even anywhere close to actually getting married and having kids, I have sworn up and down that my child was not going to play soccer. Baseball, sure. But soccer, no. So you can imagine my surprise that it took a mere [...]

    We moved into a house that, while it has a small yard, has (for now, until we settle on a landscaping plan) a ton of very large, very leafy, trees. Which is a bit of an adjustment, as we come from a condo where we didn’t have to worry about any such things. [...]