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Things To Be Excited About

Things To Be Excited About – April 2013

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Only four more weeks of school!  I’m tired, kids are tired, we’re all ready to be done.th[1]

Rich and I are heading west – Seattle – to see the Chamblins.  Emerald City – look out!

Wedding fever!  We have friends getting married next month and all the pretty invitations to their various wedding festivities have made me giddy with excitement – and a bit nostalgic.   I remember all the aticipation I felt leading up to my wedding, so I’ve been having many flashbacks.  I can’t believe how much time has passed.   It’s been so long since we’ve been involved in (Rich is in the wedding), or even attended a big wedding.  When I was in my twenties, it seemed like I had a wedding every month – I was a bridesmaid 12 times!  There’s been a drought in the last decade though, which makes this all the more fun.  So excited!

Books that are about to be published, that I’m excited to read:

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Going to the Ice Capades, or rather Disney on Ice, with my girl in two weeks.

Just found out the Patriots are coming to Atlanta – September 29th and we’re taking the kids to their first NFL game!

Road Trip!!!  The planning is almost complete.  All the hotels are booked and friends and family have been warned.  I just need to plan our excursions and pray that gas prices keep dropping!

Season Finale of The Good Wife – What is Alicia going to do?!?!?!?  I’m so torn!

The month of May is wicked busy – heart palpitations busy – but I’m excited to see all the dance recitals, band concerts, field days, awards ceremonies, and the “graduations” of Bear (5th) & Cammy (preK).  We are blessed.

Cool Stuff, Personal

Merryland Girl Blog Interview

My friend Melissa interviewed me on her blog, Merryland Girl.  She’s featuring a series inspired by Cecelia Ahern’s  One Hundred Names.   I was lucky to be one of the 52!  She titled my interview, On the Road Again.  So appropriate, since that’s the song I play for the kids, each morning on our road trips.  You can read the interview here:

http://merrylandgirl.blogspot.com/2013/04/52-stories-on-road-again.html

 

Parenting, Personal, Travel

My Other City by the Bay

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I often joke that I’ve left my heart in the other city by the bay, San Francisco.  But a part of my heart has always and will always be in Boston.  I was born and spent my first decade on Cape Cod, but I also consider myself a child of Boston.

IMG_1503In the 1970’s, nothing much happened on the Cape, from Labor Day to Memorial Day – if you wanted entertainment, you had to go to the mother ship.  We’d take a Greyhound bus into the city a couple of times a year – sometimes to see shows –  or to Boston Garden to see the Bruins play, sitting in the rickety old seats and smelling that stinky odor that only old buildings with no air conditioning can produce.   I saw the Ice Capades at the Garden and came within seconds of shaking Dorothy Hamill’s hand, as she greeted fans rink side.  Christmas shopping in the city.  I’ve commuted on the T and actually raced my friend Marcie, up and down the aisles, late at night.  I have viewed the city from the top of the Prudential Building.  I’ve walked the Freedom Trail.  I’ve ridden on the Swan Boats.  I’ve eaten in Quincy Market.  I’ve felt the quake of Fenway Park, when the fans go wild. Continue reading My Other City by the Bay →