This beautiful exchange

IT’S OFFICIAL. YESTERDAY AT 5PM, I BECAME UNEMPLOYED. I HUGGED MY COWORKERS GOODBYE AND WALKED OUT WITH MY PINK HYDRANGEAS IN TO THE WIDE UNKNOWN.
Okay, so maybe it wasn’t quite as dramatic as that, but I did hug them and carried out my plant. Life ahead is not completely unknown. I KNOW that we [...]

Last night was our first “going away” party. It was a small, intimate affair, and I left wishing that we weren’t moving. Or, that I could at least take all of them with me in my pocket. My time in Virginia has been a sort of a start to a new life, one that I [...]

Vroom-Vroom!
Today, my hot husband picked me up from the metro station on the harley. I felt like I was walking into a movie. I came out of the tunnel and walked towards the parking lot to see him sitting there on that magnificent piece of metal and grease. His hair was shuffled across his forehead [...]

My Mom left today after a four day visit. She and her husband flew in to town on Saturday night for a whirlwind view of DC and Northern Virginia. I don’t get to see her as much as I would like, and I often feel sad the moment she is gone. Last night, as Tony [...]

Last night I had a great time eating pizza and pasta with several of my favorite family members. We went to Generous George’s, one of the few places that I’ll miss about northern Virginia. George’s is the best around! They have great pizza and I’ve been told that the pasta is just as fabulous. It [...]

Not only did he clean up almost the entire apartment today without my even asking him to, he gave me flowers this week.
But, not only did he give me flowers, he brought them to my office.
And, not only were they flowers, they were hydrangeas. Hydrangeas are the flowers we had in our wedding.
Finally, not only [...]

1. The traffic
2. Commuting to work every morning and evening on the Metrorail.
3. Tourist season while commuting every morning and evening on the Metrorail.
4. McDonald’s never getting our order right because the person in the window doesn’t understand english.
5. Living in a one-bedroom apartment with a very furry dog who has to run around the [...]

From the fifth grade through eighth grade, I went roller skating almost every weekend. My then best friend, Leah, and I would put on our tight blue jeans, slouch socks and white hoop earrings the size of golf balls and hit the rink. Of course, neither of us could drive so one of our moms [...]

Deciding what to eat for dinner (the moment he realized why he married her)

him: “What would you like to eat for dinner?”
me: “You know, lately I’ve been craving Rosedale BBQ.”
him: “I love you.”
Identities have been withheld to protect the innocent 
“Did you burp?”
“No, did you fart?”

This post is all about GRAHAM! I took some new pictures of him over the weekend and just want to share them. He is such a cute dog that he needs many different names just to contain all of his cuteness: Grammy, Grammers, Butt-munch, Cracker.The first picture (not new) is of Graham and Bella. Bella [...]