If you stopped in yesterday, you know that I am now home from a whirlwind weekend, driving a Chevy Traverse (for a review I’ll post at my other blog later in the week) to Tennessee. We saw lots of folks, including both Jim’s parents and my parents as well as Jim’s sister and her family, Kate and Squeaks (Bean and Kate’s hubby were out watching fireworks), and another high school friend, McMel. All of that in a little more than two days, really. “Whirlwind” is appropriate indeed, don’t you think? I had not seen McMel since our high school’s ten-year reunion (back in 1996) and we only briefly chatted that…
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Parenting Phase One? Complete.
To our Older Son: Eighteen years ago today, you were born. It was not only the first day of summer and the longest day of the year in a sunlight-to-moonlight ratio kind of way, but also, as we’ve told you many times while grinning from ear to ear, the longest day of our lives up to that point. You weren’t the easiest baby, either. Of course, we could have had it way worse but you used to cry and cry for seemingly no reason at all. And then there was that issue regarding your not tolerating being held by anybody except for me, for months. That includes your father who,…
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A Blast From His Past
I’m floored, and impressed. Let me explain. My particular suburb is one of the largest cities in Illinois, but to me it often feels small. For example, our yearly tradition is the Memorial Day parade; the boys march (with their Boy Scout Troop) in the parade, accompanying the Gold Star Families, and I watch the parade. In the middle of our downtown area on Memorial Day, I always, without fail, see about 30-40 people who I know. It’s a weird thing, living in this “big” town but feeling like it’s Mayberry at the same time. While our town has grown by leaps and bounds since we moved here in the…
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Have You Hugged Your Mother Today?
Just popping in to wish all of you moms out there a Happy, Happy Mother’s Day, especially my own Mom: Love you, Mom! I’ll talk to you later today! Mom & Me. (This was, for several obvious reasons, NOT taken with my trusty, dented, pink-duct-taped Olympus.) ©2010 Suburban Scrawl
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Get To Know Project Runway’s Laura Bennett
If you know me “in real life” or happen to follow me on Twitter, you know that I am a huge fan of “Project Runway“. HUGE. If it is at all possible, my entire world comes to a screeching halt when the show is broadcast on Thursday nights so I can watch and also take part in the Clever Girls Collective Project Runway Twitter party. When it’s not possible, I’m watching it at 5:45 a.m. on Friday morning. If you’re a regular reader, you’ll remember how Sue rocked my world by not only getting a headshot of Tim Gunn at last year’s BlogHer conference (okay, and signing it herself on…