There’s nothing like Halloween to remind us that little girls love to dress-up. When I was a preschooler I wanted only to be just like my Daddy, so I opted out on tu-tus and princess dresses in favor of things like ties and vests and cowboy boots. Not that my Dad ever owned cowboy boots….
The journey to our poodle skirts… Pink felt fabric: $21 Sequins: $5 Skirt pattern: $8 Velcro: $5 Poodle appliques: $10 Tacky glue: $5 Someday telling the girls that their mother made their costumes: priceless … Except that it’s not exactly true because their grandmother had to intervene and save the project somewhere about the time…
Well, we returned home from Road Trip 2010 yesterday afternoon, and we’re regrouping and settling back into our routine today. Over all, it was a great adventure, and I’m so glad we got to experience the big city of Philadelphia and some of the northeastern areas of the country at the peak of autumn. To…
(Our travels continue, but the significance of today’s date outweighs the importance of our stories from the road. I’ll wrap those up later this week.) Dear Dad, I can hardly believe that today marks five years since you so abruptly left us. The events of that particular day unfolded so swiftly that it left us…