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Bonne annee!

Missy — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:09:16 +0000

Happy New Year! My year is going about 50/50 so far. We had a WONDERFUL New Year’s Day open house yesterday, with tons of friends, tons of food, tons of drink, and tons of windows open because it was an ungodly 50 degrees outside. I decided yesterday that my favorite thing about our huge [...]

Welcome to my stop on the Holiday Homes Tour!

Missy — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:05:35 +0000

I’m excited to be participating in Jen’s Holiday Homes Tour this year. Last year, I missed the tour by a couple of days because my family always decorates way late (as in, the weekend before Christmas.)

Welcome! As you can see, our celebration of Christmas begins with the celebration of Advent. Lucky me, I [...]

Advent

Missy — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:38:17 +0000

Advent (n):

A coming into place, viewing or being; arrival (usually initial capital letter) the coming of Christ into the world (usually initial capital letter) the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas, observed in commemoration of the coming of Christ into the world

It is officially the season of Advent in the Catholic Church and I love it. We light candles, wear purple, and hold our collective breath, waiting for that wonderful [...]

Shape Shifting

Missy — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:51:06 +0000

Did you know that my favorite holiday is coming up? It’s true. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year, closely followed by Christmas and my birthday. I love Thanksgiving – its reflective, thoughtful nature, its quiet, time-honored traditions, its obnoxiously upbeat and unapologetically sentimental parade, its piles and piles of damn fine food.

This year, [...]

This is Halloween, This is Halloween…

Missy — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:54:48 +0000

(Yes, we let Abby watch The Nightmare Before Christmas this weekend.)

(No, it was not entirely for my edification. She actually enjoyed the movie.)

I love Halloween! It’s one of my favorite holidays, with the costumes and the candy and the silly, scary stuff. Abby seems to be really having fun with it this [...]

Typical American Family

Missy — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:35:33 +0000

We have been watching a lot of episodes of the Cosby Show lately. Abby has fallen in love with the characters and Brian and I have fallen back in love with the writing and snappy dialogue. (We were both around 7 when the show premiered and remember watching it with OUR parents as kids.) [...]

By the numbers

Missy — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:41:53 +0000

Today is birthday. I am 34 years old. I thought I’d give you a rundown of what my life looks like today, by the numbers.

Number of birthday wishes on my Facbeook account: 27 and counting

Number of birthday kisses Abby gave me: at least 4

Number of birthday kisses Brian gave me: undisclosed

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Hello, my name is Chad… UPDATED

Missy — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:45:15 +0000

I think that dropping my daughter off on the campus where I went to high school is causing a ginormous case of the nostalgias. Compound that with a birthday coming up next week, a request from my class correspondent to share a favorite college memory, and a family Cosby-Show-a-Thon, and yeah. I’m pretty much livin’ [...]

On laundry

Missy — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:08:12 +0000

If you’ve read this blog for any length of time (or know me personally), you know that I live in one of those fun, multi-generational houses, like all the cool kids are doing these days. There are many people living here all of whom work or go to school full-time (some of us both [...]

Vacation wrap-up

Missy — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:40:38 +0000

First off, thanks to all of you who expressed doubt in my estimate of when Abby will have her preschool classroom completely under her control. I tend to agree with you, three weeks was a rather conservative estimate. Especially since her teacher told me at pickup yesterday, “You have a very bright young lady [...]