Enjoying the indestructible book

No monkeying around. Maybe a little!

One month old Aiden.

New beginnings

The wedding on May 28 was wonderful.
(She made her bouquet with broaches and hydrangea: click the photo to see it better.)

Off to North Carolina to live.

Found an apartment with central air!!!!

Adopted two butterscotch kittens in need of a family.
Palmer and Arnold
Lemonade and Ice Tea
White feet & belly and all Tan

2011 Baker of the Year graduates with High Honors

SHE'S BACK...after a summer internship at Epcot.

We're celebrating her return to New Hampshire.

Our daughter on her last day as a Culinary Intern At Epcot.

Leaving was easy, saying Good-bye was tough.
Roommates for a summer.

Where did the month of May go?

And this is one reason we send them off to college:

Things i have learned in my first few days of college:

1. always leave towel in plain sight, so as to not forget it in the room when taking a shower... =(

2. roomates will go to crazy parties and get home at 4 in the morning and wake you up and then sleep in really late making it so you have to stay quiet.

3. being quiet gets you no where. the louder you are (when ur not with your roomate and they are sleeping) the more you will get noticed and the more friends you will most likely get.

4. im eligable for work study and would like to work at the animal shelter!!

5. The basement (where i was supposed to be in the first place) is the best floor. the nicest, kindest, most talkative, and willing to include you in anything they do.
IIl be spending most of my time down there with a girl named nicole who has quickly became a friend and has done everything with me thus far. including a 12 o'clock pizza party including all the "weirdos" (as nicole calls them) who would rather watch the funny movie role models than hang with the kids who were drunk and puking all over the place

7. girls who dress slutty are slutty and best to be avoided.

not a drop of rain at the ceremony

My daughter is on the far right with the 4 leaf clover on her mortar board.

It had rained all week and through the night. Then the sun came out and it got hot. Then as we're heading to the high school for an outdoor graduation the clouds start rolling in. Through the speeches and the calling of the 180 graduates it stayed dry. As soon recessional was played it started to sprinkle and then the heavens opened up.

Necessity, the Mother of Invention

My daughter was complaining about her cheap paper lunch bags and how they wouldn't even last til her lunch period. She recently stepped up to the whole 4R's of recycling and thought that using paper bags was not good for the environment. We had talked about making a lunch sack and I had pictured your usual rectangular shape that would fold down and stay shut with velcro. She wanted a bag that was round in shape with pull-ties. Okay!...but I just moved all my fabric to the "new tiny" house. What could we use? YES! a tyvek envelope that had just come in the mail. It was a big hit at senior high lunch table. Some of the teachers even commented on how original it was. Another box checked off on the to-do list.

Being a mom

You want to be there for your children all the time. But you can't be. They have to do and learn for themselves. My daughter was in an auto accident this morning. She is fine, just one scratch near her eye. But looking at the car you would never guess. Hit in the driver door, but she was safe. I trust in a higher power.

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."– Eleanor Roosevelt