Knitting4Shirley

Usually a person considers the past year before setting goals for the one to come but there's really no reason why it can't be done ...

It seems that the process of finishing off the house goes on and on.  While it's certainly lovely and livable there are all these little...

This is the post where I demonstrate how serious I was in my list yesterday. I am beyond busy. I have meetings to go to, trips to plan, co...

As you may imagine, there is actually quite a lot going on around my house but sometimes it feels like softball, softball, softball. For my ...

Have you ever seen a place from a distance, or maybe even read about it, and just knew that you'd love it? I bet most of us have. I have...

It's been a really challenging week. I'm still trying really hard to avoid stress but it's finding me anyway. Sometimes it...

you know how sometimes you go to the store for bread and come home with everything but? Well, this weekend we had our own version of that bu...

This weekend was exactly as I planned. Lot's of knitting and relaxing. In fact, we were so busy relaxing this weekend that by the time w...

It was another insanely busy weekend. DQ had a birthday party at our house on Friday night and I took no pictures at all. No pictures of t...

It is a generally accepted fact that Mondays suck... except when it's the only full day that you expect to be in the office all week and...

You have to wonder how much longer this beautiful fall weather can last. I did errands, saw friends and went for a walk in a park with Stink...

How did you spend this lovely fall weekend? We enjoyed the kind of weekend that makes you feel so good. On Saturday, while DQ was busy at th...

It would appear that I hit a wall last week and the wall won. I'm talking about a figurative wall of course but it left it's mark on...

Metro still sucks. It seems like there is an inverse relationship between the fares and the service - the higher the rates go, the worse the...

The momcation continues although this weekend was more balanced, which is to say that there were a few fails mixed in with the good stuff. I...

Last night we went to see Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg at the American Art Mu...

One week ago today I dropped my girls off at camp. Since then I've received 2 notes from each of them. They say that they're missing...

The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is one of those things that makes DC a great place for families. Each year there are 3 areas, each focusin...

Yesterday was glorious. The heat finally broke and, more importantly, the humidity disappeared - at least for a little while. We took full a...

You might be a Twihard if you have all the books in the Twilight series - especially if you have more than one copy of most of them. You mig...