The Quiet after the Storm

My folks are still here, and they stayed with the kids so my husband and I could go out for dinner alone.  We tried a place we’d never been before, and had a perfectly pleasant meal, quiet and without the chaos found at the local chain places during the holiday...

Gratitude

Leading up to the US Thanksgiving holiday, I’ve been writing about what I am thankful for. Oprah Winfrey tried to incorporate this sense of thankfulness when she was pushing a “gratitude journal” a few years ago. This was a way to write down the...

Thanks to Campfire and verizon Home 2.0!

Campfire and Verizon’s Home 2.0 project sent us a great Flip Video camera to thank us for our blog posts about the super verizon Home 2.0 Events, showing the super power of FiOS. The only downside of the whole experience is the fact that FiOS is not available in...

Overkill

I don’t watch a lot of TV these days.  I even get the majority of my news online, and thus, “normal” people always look at me a bit oddly as I am taken aback by such announcement as the outlet malls will be opening at Midnight for shopping on...

Holidays & Happiness

The Holidays- Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s (and I’ll toss in my birthday since it’s on Jan. 2nd) are often incredibly busy and incredibly stressful.  There’s family gatherings, enormous banquet sized meals to be prepared, parties to host...

Family and the Holidays

My family is coming to join us for Thanksgiving.  While my “blood” family is important to me, my internet family is also important.  Before things get totally crazed, I thought I’d give thanks to the blessings of this past year: Rob & Megin...