In which you check out the Sleep Number bed! Hah! When I got married four years ago, my mother said she’d make me (us) a wedding quilt. She asked, “What color would you like?” And I promptly replied, “Orange. And king-sized!” She coughed a little, but her eyes were twinkling. “Orange, did you say? Orange? […]

An inter-office IM conversation from this morning. Mark S. says: consider yourself lucky that you aren’t my sister Michelle M. says: uh, okay – I’ll start on that right away Mark S. says: my father gave my sister and i each 200 lbs. of beef and 100 lbs. of pork for christmas Mark S. says: […]

Apparently I was good… enough. Behold my astonishingly long list of delicious Xmas goodies! 2 brown super-soft bath sheets socks (wool and angora – yum) a long-sleeved t-shirt a spring green down vest black velvet drawstring pants 3 knives, including a super cool dicer 3 Pyrex baking dishes Tupperware containers a Barnes & Noble gift […]

In which I did NOT get to sleep in, not even a little bit. Our niece, Parker, gets up at five in the morning – greeting the day with a hearty bellow. This causes one parent or the other to bash around the kitchen preparing a bottle; shortly afterward someone’s making pot after pot of […]

How fun is it to be me? Not very, and yet at the same time, VERY. First, I’m sick. As a dog. A dog with a possible sinus infection. (Rating: not fun.) Second, Brett and I exchanged Xmas gifts last night. I gave him a BOSCH Powerbox, which is a super-tough jobsite stereo he can […]