by Robin | Mar 28, 2007 | Celebrations, Family, Favorite things, Personal, Smiles
Remember the 1984 movie "Splash" starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah? (Does it kill anyone else this movie is 23 years old…….!?) It’s a classic mermaid tale (snickers to THAT oxymoron), a love story replete with...
by Robin | Mar 27, 2007 | Family, Fathers and daughters, Favorite things, Nostalgia, Personal
It arrived unexpectedly in a non-descript, bigger-than-a-breadbox cardboard container, impossible to predict what was inside. The return address at least revealed it was from my dad’s wife, Anne. Over the past year or so, it hasn’t been uncommon to receive mail from...
by Robin | Mar 24, 2007 | Kids, Personal, Photos
This is how my kids "use" my cell phone (waaaaaayyyyyy more than calling their peeps). They do this when I don’t know it, and then, when I open it to use it, there’s always a reason to laugh…or cry…or simply recoil. The...
by Robin | Mar 22, 2007 | Family, Kids, Personal, Photos, Smiles
We’re packin’ a picnic and headed here :). This is what we discovered last time. Man…this is what my kids looked like last time: I cannot believe we haven’t gone back since 2005. It’s been waaaaaaaay too long. My husband...
by Robin | Mar 20, 2007 | Favorite things, Food and Drink, Nutrition, Personal, Random, Trivia
I was just looking for a simple answer to the age-old question "Why does eating asparagus make urine smell so nauseatingly disgusting horrifically repulsive wretchedly rank violently vile bad? So off to the library internet I go, spending the morning...
by Robin | Mar 20, 2007 | Blogging, Celebrations, Favorite things, Personal, Smiles
The drama mamas at Mama Drama hosted a little St. Paddy’s Day Limerick contest, and this morning as I was minding my own business, scrolling through a few of my 201 feeds in Bloglines (:/ I need to do something about that), I noticed my lil’ ole name in...