Whew - we had a big family dinner here this afternoon/evening.  People started arriving around 2:30, left about 7:45.  Everyone brought some food item to share, and it was all really good stuff.  I was the hostess, so I didn’t get as much time to visit as everyone else, and I spent a lot of [...]

Yesterday as soon as I got off of work from delivering the school kids to their homes I jumped into my car and went to pick my hubby up from his work, then we went to the Vienna Metro station to pick up our son “J” who is here for a one week visit before [...]

It really takes me by surprise when I see how tattered my hubby’s boots are just a few weeks after we buy them!  I guess I really shouldn’t complain, I would imagine that just proves how hard he works!  So every couple of months we go work boot shopping to pick him up a new pair.  He’s [...]

After supper tonight my hubby decided to mow the lawn.  He was SUPPOSED to mow it yesterday, but he took the day off to go hang out with my brother and do some things related to joining the Masons.  So today he had to go to work from 7-4, come home and eat supper and [...]

My hubby and I have been looking around and checking out the used cars for sale in the area.  We have just started the process of buying some kind of “new to us” car, but haven’t quite decided whether to buy a brand spanking new car or a second hand car.  
I keep telling my hubby that I [...]