The anniversary dinner went really well. I’m the talk of the family! The guestbook that had all sorts of pictures of my parents relationship together was a HIT. Everyone signed. Everyone was touched. My parents got fabulous presents. The food was great. Nine courses, not including [...]
This is the introduction I placed in the front of the guestbook for tonight’s anniversary dinner:
Every once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life,
Love gives you a Fairy Tale
My parents are celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary. It has been a remarkable 30 years and I am grateful to be able [...]
“No way. No how. No McCain.”
-Hillary Clinton.
**back to work.
My parents 30th wedding anniversary dinner is one day away. The venue has been changed 3 times in the past five days. Really want to pull my hair out at this point.
LOVED LOVED LOVED Michelle Obama’s speech. Brought tears to my eyes. She’s going to be a fantastic first lady!
Went to Chinatown with my cousin [...]
Where was I? ah, my parent’s whirlwind love story. Let’s see how many of the details I can pull out. All of this is collected from my memory, bits and pieces, of what they’ve told me over the past 28 years.
Right about this time, 30 years ago, my parents were getting all the details down [...]
I tend to have too many things to do. It’s how I work best. I have been like this as far back as I can remember. It’s not hard for me to sit and do nothing. It is, however, hard for me to have nothing to do, to not have a list of fifty things that [...]
I’m going here! I’m going here!
***happy dance***
Three amazing days of soaking in everything I can about Photoshop, taking classes by the best. All it took was months of us begging our boss. ha.
Three amazing days.
In Vegas!
Go ahead, tell me you’re jealous.
Wedding in a Catholic church. At one point people kneel to pray.
Mommy: You know how we go to temple and kneel on the red stool and **tang tang? Well, in this church they kneel down and tang tang just like us.
Chloe: Tang tang just like me?
Mommy: Yes, just like us.
Chloe: [...]
We’re currently waiting to adopt domestically. My daughter is four. She knows that we are waiting for her baby brother or sister. She knows her birth story and that she grew in my tummy. She has become increasingly interested by anatomy and how her body works. I recently bought her a book about the body [...]
We just got our count for how many of our adoption letters went out in July! I have to say that I wasn’t looking forward to hearing from our coordinator ever since that big fat ZERO in June. We had THREE letters sent out in July. I was just so happy to not see a [...]
