At first, I kept blaming our busy schedule. We had the holidays, which included lots of traveling, houseguests and sugar. Then, it was simply us trying to get back into our routine. But now? Well, I’m out of excuses and starting to face an ugly truth — our daughter is turning into a brat. OK,…
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Getting Ready For Guests
My husband and I have a long-standing tradition — we wait until we know we have houseguests coming and then we scramble to finally do all those pesky honey-dos. I swear, if no one ever visited us, our house would still look like it did when we moved in eight years ago. In other words,…
Papa Can You Hear Me?
First of all, many thanks to everyone for your kind comments in my previous post. The family gave Aunt Bobbie a send-off she would have loved. It was a day filled with funny stories and tributes to her life. So, thank you again. I ended up taking a longer-than-planned blogging hiatus because I’ve been buried…
Cancer Sucks
This week, we lost another member of our family to cancer. DadJovi’s aunt Bobbie died on Monday at 82 of lung cancer. Six years ago, she was diagnosed with — and beat! — breast cancer. But a few months ago, she was diagnosed with lung cancer and she went quickly. Lung cancer doesn’t eff around….
On a First-Name Basis With the Princesses
We may have reached our Disney tipping point this weekend. While I recovered from my big night out on the town, DadJovi got up early on Sunday and took E. to Magic Kingdom. When we saw earlier in the week that Sunday was a 3 on the Easy WDW crowd control calendar (which is a…