HAPPY #NATIONALDOGDAY!!!!!! I HAVE JOINED UGALLERY TO CELEBRATE NATIONAL DOG DAY BY DOING A GIVEAWAY OF A CUSTOM PET PORTRAIT! of course, around here EVERYDAY is DOG DAY…and CAT DAY …and KID DAY…..but I love any reason to celebrate my loved ones!!! HOW TO ENTER VISIT THE UGALLERY PAGE ON FACEBOOK  IT IS SUPER EASY!!! Simply submit… Read More WIN A CUSTOM PET PORTRAIT! GIVEAWAY ON UGALLERY!

I DID IT!!! I got my firstborn son all GRADUATED AND packed and ready and MOVED INTO his NEW home….where he will share space with a great guy from Jacksonville! I have few words of wisdom…no major epiphanies. I stayed true to my intention which was TO MAKE SURE IT WAS HIS DAY…and not about… Read More I SURVIVED MY FIRST COLLEGE “MOVE IN” DAY

Tomorrow is the day. The BIG day. MOVE IN DAY at UVA The summer was spent in preparation for THIS day… making and revising “lists”,  taking your experienced suggestions,  and compiling the beginnings of his Tate’s new DORM home. Yesterday, he and I inventoried everything, packed it up and it is all sits on our… Read More LEAVING HOME AND MOVING OUT…and IN

ONCE AGAIN HERE WE ARE! THE  FIRST DAY School started today. SO MANY FIRSTS! FIRST DAY OF HIGH SCHOOL FOR COOPER, FIRST DAY OF HER SENIOR YEAR FOR PHOEBE, FIRST DAY I DID NOT DRIVE THEM, AND THE FIRST DAY WITH NO TATE IN THE LINE UP…BITTERSWEET…. 🙁   HAVE THE BEST YEAR EVER GUYS! I… Read More FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL 2015

COOPER is so very excited, DARE I SAY THRILLED….to be getting his own room for the first time in his life…and has been coming to me with architectural RENDERINGS and drafts and drawings of his NEW IMPROVED room ….he is a boy after my own heart! Decorating his room takes a departure from my usual… Read More MONDAY MAKEOVER – COOPER’S WHITE COLLAR BEDROOM

I CANNOT HELP IT. I started counting down the days…19 years ago….and now…here we are…one week left… I love how they call it “MOVE IN “Day…. But despite my procrastination and flat-out Denial …( my husband just texted me “Does Tate need a Physical?”)…it IS happening…T minus 7 days…and counting. I KNOW YOU WILL forgive… Read More ONE WEEK – BUT WHO’S COUNTING?

PARADISE AKA “VACATION” All 5 of us together, every meal, chilling on the dock, fishing in the boat, betting at the race track, lobsters in Maine, surfing on the beach, Cousins, Birthdays, sleeping late and card games late…the TV did not go on one time! JUST US…THAT is PARADISE! WE TRAVEL HOME TODAY ….and our… Read More PARADISE AND COMING HOME

 HAPPY 19TH BIRTHDAY TATE!!!! Tate is the light of my life… I used to sing him “you are my sunshine”,  he makes me crazy and laugh hysterically – often time simultaneously…AND no one has made ME yell louder or cry harder…often tears of joy, he warms my heart when I watch how GREAT he is… Read More HAPPY 19TH BIRTHDAY TATE

 The PAINT color WHITE . It always makes a showing and my guess is that choosing the “RIGHT WHITE” is what drives the most people crazy. Am I white? I mean right? A FEW YEARS AGO – We wanted to update our kitchen but were not in the place to do a “GUT REVOVATION” . AH yes,… Read More CHOOSING A WHITE FOR YOUR KITCHEN