Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
Some drummers instructed drumming technique, then some fifes joined in for a jaunty, colonial tune. Isaac watched with his hands over his ears. “There will be a junior corps performance later outside the capitol building,” said a drummer. “But it’s only the junior corps,” a fife player shrugged when I asked him about it, sneering…
Grammie and Grandad stopped by! The kids were delighted!! We got to celebrate Chris’ birthday…and my birthday…and Isaac and Eloise’s birthdays! We showed them the MacArthur Memorial on Norfolk’s Cannonball Trail, and ate dinner at Freemason Abbey. The kids loved ripping into their presents…and we loved watching them. They were so excited. Thanks, Grammie and…
Here’s how we ended up at the corner of Betty Crocker and Mad Men. Me: I need some Tupperware! Someone sell me something. Friends via Facebook: so do we! Have a party. Me: no way. But wouldn’t it be funny to have a 50s Housewife Tupperware party? Friends: have the party! We will come! So…
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. Just kidding, it’s all the BEST. Cute things converge: the crawling. The stinker look she gives me when she knows I’m about to tell her NO. Her brand new PIGTAILS and hair clips. Our new game of her crawling toward the cat food…
Here’s the round up of other fun stuff we did last week! Chris found Greenies Beach Bar and Grill. The music was not my style, the service was terrible, and the food took forever. WE CANT WAIT TO GO BACK! Just 15 minutes away and right on the Chesapeake, we sat over the sand, watched…
The new baby giraffe was out and about! Eloise was dressed like a tiger! All the neighbors rallied for Laura’s inaugural trip to the zoo! With this many kids we were our own traveling zoo of chaos. Einie meenie minie mo…catch a tiger by her toe!
There has been the slightest of shifts. Instead of blazing hot, high humidity, we’ve had more than a week with temperate mornings, amazing breezy evenings, and days just right for a long, shady walk in the botanical gardens. Sara Michelle and I walked for miles through the Enchanted Forrest, the Potager Garden, the formal grounds—so…
