Alex Breakdancing Alone at the Halloween Dance I think I’m finally rubbing off on my sons. I will start this blog post off with this confession about my husband… he can be a little on the shy side, but the man knows how to have a good time! When I first met Matt, it was at a frat party at [...]

OK… so it was a LONG day yesterday without power.  It was on when I woke up yesterday morning, but around 7:30AM it flickered off, then back on… then back off – for good.  I kept hoping it would go back on throughout the day, especially as the nighttime rolled in.  Well, it didn’t.  So what do you do with [...]

This past weekend we were in Pittsburgh for my nephew’s baptism. My sons haven’t been baptized yet (which will change on June 12th), so we told them to pay extra attention so they would know what they have to look forward to in 6 weeks. Our son Alexander just had dancing on the brain. When this little guy feels like [...]

Barry and I spontaneously took off this past Tuesday and headed to Cape Cod, or, as we New Englanders say, “the Cape.” The day was glorious… warm, breezy, beautiful sun in the big old blue sky. Our plan was to head all the way to the tip of the Cape, to Provincetown, but a 13-mile construction warning detoured us to [...]

If dancing is the body made poetic… then imagine the poetry of watching a granddaughter dance. The stanzas and verses of her life unfolding before my very eyes. The soft pinks of where she has been and the blended pinks of where she is going. The music of her little life in perfect harmony for those few precious minutes… As [...]