[Note: This posting was, for all intents and purposes, ready to go this a.m. However, apparently I wasn’t. Really, all I had to do was do a li’l spell check, edit some late night phrases that don’t do so well in the light of day (and vice versa) and hit ‘publish post.’ Yup. Couldn’t even manage that. To be fair, I was awfully busy ruining my daughter’s life and stranding a three year-old in the line for preschool pickup. One super sick {Read More}
November is for sleeping.
November 1, 2010 By 2 Comments
Firstly and foremostly, congrats to Kelly F, winner extraordinaire of the Brain Noodles giveaway! (And no, that does not read ‘Keely F.’ It doesn’t.) Hope you have some fun kiddos in your life- or enjoy a good crafty evening by yourself. ‘Cause who doesn’t? Except for autophobes. Hmm. So. Where did October go? Ah yes, now I remember. We sent it packing with armloads of confetti and [impossible to open] plastic toy enclosures, a face full of Trick or Treat makeup {Read More}
Like a Sharpie with a chisel. Of diamonds. Big ones.
October 28, 2010 By 5 Comments
It continues to be Birthday Week. On Monday I enjoyed regaling my pretty terrific husband P.J. with a list of 29 reasons why he should remain married to me. Today’s featured birthdaygoer (and haver) is none other than Nora Jane, One Year Old Extraordinaire (well, tomorrow, anyhow.) What?! How can she be that aged already, didn’t you carry her for thrice this long, you exclaim? (AGREED.) But since it wouldn’t be fair to only list 1 reason why she should {Read More}
I have a crush on my husband. How nerdy.
October 25, 2010 By 6 Comments
She’s fine. Pre-bloggy-blurby: For those of you interested in winning this toy, please please leave a comment on that post telling me how many entries to give you. I’m totally digging all of the votes and clicks, but I have NO way of knowing who’s doing what, when and how. You can do one humongous comment on Friday that lets me know how many chances to give you, or you can do one comment daily. Whatever’s clever. Just want to give {Read More}
Declan, meet Media.
July 1, 2010 By 4 Comments
The Flynn/Grant/Schoeny clans have been abuzz with their newest addition: Mr. Declan Seamus Grant, born June 30th at 3:06pm, 9lbs and 4oz, 21in long. (Are you hearing this, Nora Jane? I guarantee you guys will be wearing the same hoodie at the Cape.) He joins big bros Quinn Sawyer and Cole Sebastian- and of course my big sis Kate and her ‘Let’s Have A Lacrosse Team’ husband Tom. We are so stoked to meet our newest little guy- Nora’s first “little” {Read More}
It’s only a problem if you acknowledge it.
June 14, 2010 By 8 Comments
Happy Flag Day! I am totally kidding, Annie. Happy 30th! (This especially falls under the category of “not cool” since our dear Annie is, in fact, a Brit.) Things have changed a little bit since our combined 23rd birthday parties- the fashion, minimum wage, the “interwebs”- but she doesn’t look a day over 25. (Especially not the day after 25. That was a rough one.) Let’s do the weekend out of order, shall we? First up: the season premiere of True {Read More}
‘Binge’ is such a harsh word.
June 10, 2010 By 3 Comments
I wasn’t kidding about the Hidden Mallard puzzle. Way back on Monday I was explaining the significance of the puzzle on Birthday Day (very different than Birthday Week, etc, etc) as crucial to the briefly rainy portion of the afternoon. Some people laughed- Oh hah, aren’t they being quaint- doing a puzzle with a mallard! Others might have thought I was playing up the dork factor for effect and never actually engaged in any sort of cryptic mallardy activities. The Mallard is {Read More}
You might wanna hit the bathroom before this one.
June 3, 2010 By 11 Comments
I’ll be 30 in three days. This is a very real and very definite thing. So I decided to post about what I’ve learned over the past thirty years. Then I realized that I know nothing. Absolutely nothing. Except. Perhaps I know a little bit about the music that has shaped me, be it a favorite song, a theme from a period of my life or songs that just wouldn’t leave my iPod. So I made a list. A CD, {Read More}
