y sister, Carla, had her 20 year class reunion this past weekend. The majority of what I remember about her high school years (I am 11 years younger than her) is one most embarrassing story: Carla’s girl friends were over at our house one day around Christmas. They were in the living room sprawled on the […]

realize the 4th is over and gone, but I never got around to posting photos from it. So, here’s a snippet of our holiday! We kept our holiday pretty low-key this year. Kevin got up in the morning and mowed the grass, while I watered the flowers & plants and did some laundry. We grilled […]

As his sister, I could really use this time to embarass him with every detail of childhood memories and sibling rivalry in the Miller household. But I won’t be, well, I love this kid. He wasn’t the sister I had wanted, but the second I first held him, I didn’t care anymore. When he was […]

“In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all.” (Anne Sophie Swetchine)

This little peanut is extra special to me because he’s my newest nephew. He’s nephew number 5 and, in a strange way, I think that an aunt’s heart grows similarly to a mother’s heart: it just doesn’t matter how many there are, there’s always room to love one more. His arrival was a last-minute flurry […]

This is how it started. Back when I was a young teenager, our family gift exchange started moving around. First it was Christmas Eve, then it was Christmas morning, then it was Christmas mid-morning after brunch, then Christmas post-lunch, then Christmas evening. The kicker was one year in my high school days when our gift […]