Record numbers of people watched the 2016 Presidential Debate last night. Living on the west coast means that the debate started at 6:00 p.m. – dinner time in our home. To pay homage to all presidents past and future, to celebrate that we live in a country where the candidates can and do debate publicly, …
It is time to revisit my summer reading list. I read a few of the books that I set out to read last June, and I also read a few that were not on the list – more about that later. One book I read and really enjoyed was A Man Called Ove: A Novel …
Thank you to Evite for sponsoring this post. As always, all opinions are 100% my own. #BeThere #Evite #paidpost #ad Photo Booths are the rage at all kinds of gatherings – large parties and small parties alike. People love to take silly photos. The sillier the better – and the more photo opportunities there are, the …
What’s a party without ice cream? Not a party. According to my family, ice cream is a major must for pretty much Every. Single. Celebration. Especially according to my daughter Nicole who looooves ice cream. As you know, we celebrated Nicole’s college graduation earlier this summer. Yea! That is child number three that has now …
I just finished the book The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson, I can’t claim to have read this book, rather I listened to it via Audible. Audible is a whole new experience for me! I love reading, but since I am currently on a very long road trip …
The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney is a tale of four siblings playing the waiting game – waiting for a large inheritance that will be paid out to the four adults once Melody, the youngest sibling, turns forty. Melody’s fortieth birthday is coming up but it seems not soon enough. The four siblings, Leo, Beatrice, Jack, …
The pool is open! I celebrated my first official day of summer by hosting one of my Ladies’ Pool Parties! All of us ladies deserve a day of floating in the pool, hanging with great friends, eating some good food, and enjoying a few of my (should be) famous jello shots. Amongst my friends I …
Summer is here! It really, really is here! I have finished all of the end of the year school work. You know, report cards, student cumulative folders, cleaning the classroom and putting things away for the next eight weeks. I attended a very worthwhile four-day teaching conference, and then hosted a ladies pool party on …
We have just survived a tsunami of graduations! The most wonderful aspect of graduation is the fact that one has reached a huge milestone. A milestone that took years of hard work to achieve. So of course you need to celebrate! With six kids in our family we have hit multiple milestones this year. One child …
I finished reading The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion months ago, and Don Tilman and Rosie, along with Gene and Claudia are characters that have really stayed with me. Why? Because they are quirky, intelligent, and a genuinely caring bunch of people. Oh, and they are also funny! So what is The Rosie Project all about? …
