If you like lovely, unique and interesting jewelry and other sweet doodads, go here and meet my lovely, unique and interesting friend Pamela. I could spend hours browsing her Etsy shop. She makes the most marvelous pretties. (Plus I'm trying to win her give-away!) Anyway, enjoi!

Our True Identity

Something to keep in mind today. And always!

Good morning, Spike.

 

 

I'm reading on the couch when Chace calls urgently from the next room, "Um, Rivka, can you please come and help me with something?" I, made suspicious by the strange tone in his voice, mosy into the kitchen to find him laying the table:

 

We have an impromptu mini-date with ice cream cones and a game of Briscola (a Sicilian card game.) House rules say the winner gets a foot rub, but somehow the loser always gets one too. Nice how that works out, especially tonight when I happen to be the loser.

Why is my husband the best?

Because when he comes home from a business trip in Minnesota, he brings me this:


Yes, Chace lovingly held this real pizza napolitana on his lap the whole flight. Betcha didn't know they let pizzas through airport security, did ya?

Moods

For Matilda's 3-month birthday, she wanted to play her favorite game, "Moods" where one player portrays a certain mood and the others have to guess it. Our best guesses:

Persnickety

 

Disdainful

 

Indignant

 

Dubious

 

Melodramatic

 

Mischievous

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breakfast

Before......during...

 

...after!