Two weeks from today, if all goes well (dare I say, “as planned”), we will be closing on our current house and our new home, followed soon after by beginning the process of moving. Since we returned from our wonderful vacation with my side of our family to Hilton Head Island, SC (which I plan […]
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Awhile back, here on my blog, I use to add what I called “Sean Stories” to some of my posts when he did or said something that I thought was especially cute or amusing. Now that Abby is part of our family, I want to do the same thing from time to time and include […]
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After 8 months on the market, approximately 30 showings, 5 open houses and an almost 15% reduction from our original asking price… “Under contract” are two of the most beautiful words I have heard in a long time. Well, at least since almost 3 weeks ago when our realtor called to say “you have an offer!” It’s true! […]
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Sometime over the past few weeks I became aware of an awesome project that Angie from Still Life with Circles had started on her blog. She began by writing a very thoughtful and moving post about where she is at in her grief and her life right now, two years, five months and counting since […]
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Today I ran in my 4th “Ridge Run” 5K race in our neighborhood. Prior to 5 years ago, in 2006, when I trained for and ran in my first 5K race, I had never run for pleasure or exercise before. Beyond that I didn’t understand or appreciate why anyone else would choose to do so. […]
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On Friday night we had some good friends over for dinner that we hadn’t gotten to see and spend time with in awhile. Earlier in the week after we made the dinner plans I was talking with Bob about what to serve for dinner. Often when we get together with this couple, especially in the […]
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