This is the last installment of our extended Thanksgiving weekend.  With all of my cousins, their children, my aunts, uncles, and family in town for the weekend, it’s been a bit crazy to say the least.  Today was just my immediate family though, just my siblings and nieces and nephews.  A much smaller crowd and […]

Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.  (Yes, I counted out the “la”s.) It’s my favorite holiday of all holidays.  Christmas.  Even just the sound makes me smile.  If it were up to me, I’d have the tree up all year.  Kevin says we have to wait until after Thanksgiving, much like my own father said when I was growing up. […]

While I joked earlier this week that we may need to take prayer breaks every 30 minutes, it seemed only fitting that my dad opened the “auction” with a prayer.  He prayed that we would remember that we can’t take things with us to our grave and that our family relationships are more important than […]

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”* In the industry where I have worked for the past two and a half years, wrinkles are an absurdity, a horror, an embarassment, and a greedy slurping from a rapidly diminishing bank account as thousands of dollars are pumped into nasolabial folds and furrowed crow’s feet. But […]

The woman next to me in black and gold leaned over and said, “For such a little thing, you sure do have a set of lungs!  You’re carrying this entire section.”  The lungs lasted me the entire game and then went scratchy and hoarse promptly afterwards and the entire section was filled with Hawkeye fans, […]

As you may know, there’s some division in our small family of two.  Kevin is a Hawkeye fan; I am a Buckeye fan.  Neither of us is willing to change teams.  And so it’s here: the day when we don our opposing team shirts and cheer against each other.  I’ve got the tickets in hand and […]