We originally scheduled this trip as a late-January getaway for Barb and Allie to get some sun. We chose the Keys as a domestic alternative to Aruba because we thought with Covid still around it was a safer option. Besides, I had a small hankering to visit old stomping grounds from my youth. We thought …
Allie returned from Australia on July 12. We were delighted to have her back and hear all the stories of her travels. But no rest for the weary! On August 11, the three of us headed off on a vacation in Italy, starting with a one-day layover in London. See details in a separate post …
Allie was in 6th grade, middle school at GCS. We gave the first of what proved to be a short-lived tradition of inviting friends and neighbors to a post-New Year’s open house. It was a nice idea: it forced us to clean up the house, it was a good chance to meet our expanding list …
Continuing our activities from October – December, 2006. On the morning of Sunday, October 8, the day of Allie’s 11th birthday party, we unexpectedly found a kitten in the construction site next door to our house. We brought him in, scrubbed him up and wondered what to do with him. We made every effort to …
Allie, Barb and I went to Florida for a summer break, starting on June 28. We stayed with Grandmom and Grandpop for a few days, probably staying at the Hilton on Singer Island. Sue was staying with Grandmom and Grandpop, too. On July 1, Barb, Allie and I checked into The Breakers Hotel in Palm …
We looked after Gerard and Chris’ dog, Dawson, for a day or two in early January. She was a beast of a puppy and tore up Gerard and Chris’s house when she was young, but she’d mellowed a bit and was a pretty good house guest…for a short while. Harry Potter and I were a …
For Christmas 2002, I got myself one of them newfangled digital cameras, so 2003 marks our first year of mostly digital photos, with timestamps that help me place when each shot was taken. Lucky you! Barb, Allie and I started the year (actually the end of 2002) in Florida with Grandma and Grandpop at their …
Summer started with a new (and final) season of T-ball for Allie, this time as an Astro. If she could have kept playing T-ball, Allie might have stayed with it as she rather enjoyed the languid pace of the game. Unfortunately, one could only play for two seasons before matriculating to coach-pitch softball. Allie didn’t …
Allie’s first visit to Disney World. We did it up right with a six night package, February 6-12, visiting all the (then-extant) parks. We felt it appropriate that Allie’s first big trip, now that she was a full four-and-a-half years old, should be to Disney World. After all, we had spent her entire lifetime inundating …
Welcome the 21st century! Back before Allie and Maddie were born, we spent several New Year’s Eves with the Harders at which Larry and I would fantasize (quite seriously, at the time) about where to celebrate New Year’s for the new millennium. As I recall, our conclusion was that the coolest place would be Sydney, …