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  • Defining Love & Happiness

    Defining Love & Happiness

    I planned to write a Valentine ’s Day blog about love, but I couldn’t. Instead I took pictures of my loves. I thought maybe I could find words by St. Patrick’s Day, but still, words did not come.  Instead I showed love with food on my husband’s and grandmother’s birthdays. I have been trying to…

  • Baby Feet

    Baby Feet

    I am absolutely revolted by feet. The idea that there are people who have foot fetishes turns my stomach. The person who invented this is a damn lunatic. Feet are repulsive. I hate looking at them and I especially hate touching them. I know I’m not the only hater of feet. There are others out…

  • Welcome Miss Daisy

    Welcome Miss Daisy

    She’s here! She’s home, healthy, and oh so beautiful! I can’t believe she’s mine, that I made someone so pretty and sweet.  Giacomo adores her too. Before I had her I was so afraid that he would be resentful or upset because of the new baby and/or because of my surgery. I underestimated him for…

  • We’re having a Daisy!

    We’re having a Daisy!

    Recently we had an abnormal blood test come back for the baby, so we had to have a few more screening blood tests done. They all came back great, and I finally did get back the baby’s gender. I wasn’t going to find out, but when they called with the results and everything was fine,…

  • Glittered Wine Glasses for President’s Day Weekend

    After a break of a few years, we finally resumed our annual President’s Day weekend family reunion ski trip (or, for many of us, sit in a cabin in the mountains and hang our trip). My sisters, parents and cousins rent two side by side houses so we can bounce back and forth from the houses.…

  • Don’t Chew on Jesus, The Joys of Stock Photography, and Other Reasons to be Grateful

    Don’t Chew on Jesus, The Joys of Stock Photography, and Other Reasons to be Grateful

    2015 was a difficult year. I suffered more than one loved one having passed, I had terrible separation anxiety from Giacomo, my father had a serious health scare, and the year ended with a such devastating loss for my young niece. I am still too upset over some of these to really talk about them…

  • Grinch Ornaments for Giacomo’s 1st Birthday

    Grinch Ornaments for Giacomo’s 1st Birthday

    It’s crazy to believe a whole year has gone by since my Mr. Man came into the world. I always say that the day he was born it felt like an explosion, that my heart grew 3 sizes that day like the Grinch. So for his first birthday, we had a Grinch themed party. Giacomo…

  • Know ALL the signs of a heart attack (Not just the typical signs)

    This Thanksgiving, I didn’t realize how thankful I really would be for my family. I was prepared to feel blessed for my new baby, but not prepared for the overwhelming relief and thanks that my father is still alive today. The day after Thanksgiving, my father suffered a massive heart attack. He had to be…

  • Our Halloween in Florida

    Our Halloween in Florida

    Spending Halloween in Disney making our own costumes was a blast!