Yesterday we celebrated my grandfather’s 70th birthday. Shrimp boil, fire pit and all!
And back at home, we celebrated Jess’ birthday, complete with red velvet cupcakes made by me. I met a ton of her friends, and they were all amazing. And then we passed out early despite the party still [...]
Number of comments: 2 I already went on and on about this thankfulness business earlier this week. But perhaps a few items can be added?
I’m also thankful for
the simple fact that I’m blessed beyond belief and have it better than most of the world’s population — no matter what kind of a day I’ve [...]
Number of comments: 4 Hey look, a list! As promised.
The past few days.
finished my stuff for Bizarre Market Holiday and dropped it off
took the wedding dress to the cleaner
made butternut squash, sage, and parmesan pasties for dinner
attended my 10-year high school reunion (more on that later)
worked
went to church
went to vespers (potluck dinner!) after church
cleaned [...]
Number of comments: 6 On our recent honeymoon we spent a lot of hours on airplanes, and that means I got a chance to look over one of my favorite amusements — the in-flight catalog of curiosities, Skymall.
While Skymall is great for some things, and is the first place a lot of great ideas [...]
Number of comments: 7 With things very slowly calming down and getting back to a manageable level of crazy, I can’t believe I’ve had to turn right around and start thinking about the holidays already. As I’m finishing the first wave of crafting for holiday craft fairs, I straighten my back out of the [...]
Besides our regularly-scheduled weekly committments, I’ve been holed up in the library creating things. I’m like a mad scientist with feathers and bits of ribbon, bubbling the afternoons away with the hot glue gun, iTunes on shuffle, and Netflix Instant. I even had to turn down an outing to Maymont [...]
Number of comments: 4 This is a good example of why I love working at the temple.
One of the kindergarten classes made this poster.
I mean there are the obvious reasons why it’s a fascinating job. You get to observe and learn about another faith, but in a fly-on-a-wall kind of a way, not in [...]
Number of comments: 9 Hello and welcome to this millennium’s episode of Catching Up With Tess. Things have been non-stop crazy since we got back, of course, so I’m only going to be able to remember a few things we’ve done. But I will dress it up with some pretty things and some links, [...]
Number of comments: 9 Okay, get ready — this is a pretty long one. Luckily I’ve organized it by days, so you can get a gist of it even if you just read the headings. Skim away.
On the Monday night after the wedding, Dan, Jess, and I were getting ready to go to the [...]
Number of comments: 8 I have been back in town for almost a week, and most of that time has been spent running name-change-related errands and sorting through cards and memorabilia and trying to get the house back in some kind of order. But don’t think I haven’t been anxious to blog about the [...]
