This Saturday, after joining Southern Mom for a pedicure and before dashing around town with Pete taking pictures of fleur de lis, Pete and I headed to the French Quarter to see the Vatican Mosaic Studio Exhibit at the Old Ursuline Convent. CS could not join us as he was pulled to Audubon Park to [...]
Well, Pete and I were back on the streets of New Orleans this weekend hunting for the Fore! Kids Fleur de Lis. And we found plenty. Check out the new page Pete is working on to highlight all the Fleurs. We still have some more to capture; I’ll let you know when they get added [...]
Well, my shower ROCKED! Big shout out to Wendy over at Southern Mom, my sister, my friend Cyndie, and my cousin. These girls know how to throw a party! Everyone really liked the “open shower” concept–apparently its all the rage according to the hipster crowd. So we were all pleased to be on the cutting [...]
This post started out being about yesterday’s adventures, but a digression in that post took so long, I deleted the stuff I did yesterday. I’ll put that in a separate post. Instead, let me write about what is really on my mind. My Baby Shower is today. Two friends (one being Southern Mom) and my [...]
Last night, my heartburn returned and forced me to cancel some pretty good dinner plans we had lined up. Instead, we watched a two-hour Dateline about a guy who’d been convicted of killing his wife. At the beginning of the second hour, as they were cutting to a commercial, they showed what was coming up–your [...]
I had my first Non-Stress Test (NST) today to monitor Sun’s heart rate. The doctor was very pleased, which, in turn, means we were very pleased. Earlier this week, we had an ultrasound done which indicated I have an “old placenta”–one that looks 42 weeks old and not 32 weeks. So now the doctors want [...]
Am I starting to get through that my family is weird with food? I never saw this attribute growing up. And maybe it did me good–until getting pregnant, I never had heartburn and rarely suffered from a stomach ache. I think I had food poisoning once (but it could just as well have been a [...]
Several weeks after CS and I met, Hurricane Georges threatened the city. I decided to ride it out with my grandparents at their house. Through their 80 years of living in the city, they had never evacuated, not even for Audrey or the infamous Camille, and their home was never damaged in any storm. Further, [...]
So, I am reading some e-mails when CS walks into the room with a snack–my bag of Sour Cream & Onion Rice Cakes. He settles down to snack and I look over to him. He is holding one of the rice cakes out for the cat to lick. Ok, that’s weird. But then CS says [...]
In 1996, I began visiting with my grandparents once a week for dinner. At one of our dinners, my grandfather showed an interest in what I thought of the taste of the shrimp my grandmother had fried for us that night. I thought he was bragging on Sunshine’s cooking (which was so unlike him and [...]