Today was going to be a quiet kind of happy cooking day.  I was working a Happy Hour at the Club with the neighbor buddies.  I made 3 flans and a batch of cracker cancy while my new garage door went in - check her out!!!Garage door goes in

We're going over to the beach for the weekend on the boat.  We're leaving tomorrow afternoon and coming back Sunday.  I won't get to post until Sunday, so I'm giving you my Friday Gratitude NOW!!!  Tomorrow, Friday, I w

Husband is on vacation and our weekend was wonderful!  We went over to Hemlock Heading and anchored out for the evening.  A good friend came by and took us mom's down the beach to a great little place for happy hour.  Much fun was

Gosh, it's been soooo long since I've been here!  Everything is fine.  Just BUSY!!!  I'm working on our Club's yearbook (and all the annoying shit and people that come along with that) and I'm also busy with PTA stu

This was a long week after having everyone around for four days.  I managed to get somewhat organized.  I bought 80% of Chrismtas gifts.  I decorated the inside of the house.  Today is the outside.  I also need to cut back th

It has been an interesting weekend thus far and while I feel like posting right now, I'm so tired that I can't separate my thoughts and organize them properly.  We just came back from dinner at my sisters house.  It was lovely

Here are a few more photos and some video! The first photo is of me and the kiddies on the boardwalk to the Lighthouse.  As we got closer, there were folks on the top who began waving to su which the children loved.  To g

Husband took off yesterday and we went to the Fire Island Lighthouse.  We've been there more times than I can count, but neither of us (nor our children) have ever been to the top!  Weird for native Long Islanders.  The kids were a

So tomorrow is the big day!!!  The kids are so excited.  They get to wear their costumes to school for the whole day (a first) instead of changing into them right before their parade.  They will march around the track for all us parent

Our kids ROCK.  The night before last I kept dear Husband up all night with my......ahem......snoring.  I have a cold and have buckled and turned the heat on (forced air), which just ratchets up the snoring big time.  SO.  Husband

Yes, I'm working another Happy Hour.  Today, in addition to working two hours at the kids pumpkin sale, grocery shopping and cleaning this absolute MESS of a house, I need to make THREE flans AND a pan of cracker candy.  Flan is not har

Hey everyone!  I'm forcing myself to take 5 minutes and write something because there's nothing I hate worse than going to someone's site and having nothing new to read.So, I got contacts!  I have two trial pairs.  One is j

Just not in my blogging mode.  So here's what's happening:I'm finding my groove between school, PTA, yacht club, helping my mom, homework....  I have sooo much to blog about, I just can't seem to organize any thoughts.&

Oh, the bittersweet sadness of summer coming to its end.  Part of me is giddy at the thought of the kids going back to school and another is sad that our lazy days together are coming to an end.  It was a strange summer as we didn't hav

While we have been away on the boat, we really went all out last week.  We were going to head out on Sunday, but the weather reports were horrendous, so we waited.  Of course, there was only one rumble of thunder and a 10 minute shower....M

You KNOW Led Zeppelin is rattling through my brain..."been a long time, been a long time, been a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time!Okay, things have been busy to say the least.  School has ended and I spent a good amount of t

I'm feeling a tad guilty that this post is over 4 days in coming, since we arrived home from vacay on Sunday.  But, that is, how we say, the life goes on.Whew!!  Been crazy busy since returning.  Unpacking.  MOUNTAINS of laund

We had a lovely day.  Daughter and I took my mom to church and then out to breakfast at the diner.  Yum.  Then we headed off to Husband's sisters house in Rye.  We saw lots of little cousins, had wonderful appetizers and a del

Perhaps that is too nice a phrase to use for my brain.  Basically, I'm fried.  As you know, Daughter had the flu, then Husband got it.  Then Mom's basement flooded.  All of these were resolved for about 10 minutes or so wh

What is tomorrow's headline going to be?  I really can't imagine.

My mother turned her kitchen sink on to soak something.  She put the stopper in and some soap.  The phone rang.  She answered it and walked into her bedroom.  ONE HOUR LATER, she heard a funny noise she thought was the TV in the k

My son is 7 today.  The time flies by so quickly it is hard to believe.  I vividly remember the day after he was born, as I was laying in the hospital bed and they brought him to me.  I fed him and we took a long nap together,&nbs

Son is home again today.  He yuked last night.  He managed to find nooks and crannies on our toilet bowl that we didn't know existed.  Thank God Husband was here, because Nutsy don't do puke.  I can handle almost everythin

Wooooo hoooo!  Finally, some of the white stuff.  I love it.  I love the gray white sky.  The quiet and stillness.  It's beautiful.  Kids were really funny when they woke up today.  They were laughing and scream

I was reminded today of our old station wagon.  We had a few, but the one that we seemed to have longest and driven the furthest was a ginormous old Mercury Marquis woody.  That's fake wood siding for you youngsters.  It was yellow