Birthday wishes and a challenge

On Thanksgiving I had a piece of pumpkin pie; on Friday it was apple pie ... but on Saturday we ate cake!

Had to post this photo so I could say Happy 22nd Birthday to our Cameron!

I was thinking of giving up all things sweet until Christmas Eve. Who's with me?

College days are winding down...the future beckons

~ My guys ~

Ralph, my mother, and I went to a parents' weekend BBQ lunch Saturday at the University of Hartford.
Cameron is rather tired of school food and didn't even eat with us. He's graduating in less than two months so he won't have to deal with it any more.

At least the weather was with us. It was a gorgeous afternoon.
 
That name tag looks dopey where I pinned it on Ralph, but it is what it is!   

Haha. He is a good sport!
   

Ice cream, summer, and me

I've been stuffing myself with ice cream this past week. I've gotten three scintillating blog posts out of the activity so far. Anything for a story, or a blog post.


In an attempt to bring page views to my blog for the New Haven Register, I bring you part 3.


I think I'm going to putting on weight if I don't watch out.
Fingers crossed my walks around the neighborhood will help in that regard.

Happy Friday to all!

We finally sang 'Happy Birthday' to our guy

Work and Thanksgiving preparations got in the way Wednesday of having a birthday cake for Cameron. But we had the cake for dessert yesterday, instead of the pumpkin pie. 
I hope he had a good birthday! We're happy to have him home for a few days.


I go to radiation this morning after a day off yesterday. Then I'm heading out to do a story on the beautiful Osborne Homestead Museum in Derby, Ct.
Each year local garden clubs decorate the house for the holiday season. This year's theme is cinema, and a friend who is in a garden club told me that her group used The Grinch theme to decorate the childhood bedroom and bathroom, with a sleigh set up in the bathtub. 

Looking forward to the creativity!

Cute and observant, if I do say so myself

I went through a drawer yesterday that hasn't been gone through in quite a while.

I found a scrap of paper from 1995, when our daughter was 6 and our son was 4, with the following written on it:

July 30, 1995:

Allegra said, "Cam, you're confusing me." 

Cam replied: "I'm confusing myself."

So Allegra said, "Write it down, Mommy."

~ ~ ~

She knew I was always writing down cute things they said. A lot of it is on scraps of paper.

Now to find them all!

The boy is 20? Yikes

I've not been blogging much lately. I'm not proud of that fact, but I suppose it is what it is. Haven't written or visited.

These past few weeks at work have been busy but I couldn't let today go by without wishing a *Happy Birthday* to our Cameron (Kid Two) who turned 20 today.

He was due on 11-11. Woopsie - he made me wait for 12 more days, arriving on the day after Thanksgiving.

But he was and is more than worth the wait!

Ralph, who is participating in NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month), has been posting every day this month, pretty much putting me to shame.

He wrote about Cameron and posted an adorable photo from a few years back here.