Monthly Archives: October 2007

It’s enough to be on your way

Sunset over Prout’s Neck, September 8 2007 (at Leonora and Frank’s engagement party). Been a slow few days. Yesterday I had a great few hours at the end of the day solo – drove out to the new Neiman Marcus, poked around, just enjoyed being alone. An incredible treat. Definitely a highlight of the week. [...]

Birthday party invitations

Having technical difficulties with first birthday invite, but these are 2, 3, and 4. 3 was supposed to be ponies at Verrill Farm, but it snowed so we wound up at our house with Silly Willy.   Email this post

A lifetime (so far) of birthday parties – #1 for Whit was monkeys, #2 was a tabblo postcard …   Email this post

Kendall’s engaged! Yahoo! Mr. Trip Foster, welcome to the family. (photo is from senior year houseparties – tragically long ago)   Email this post

Grace’s 5th birthday party

It’s that time of year again! Fingers crossed that this year it doesn’t snow, as it did on Grace’s third birthday party (forcing us inside: twenty three-and-under children in our house – never again). The birthdays at BB&N are heavily clustered in the fall and Grace and I are spending every single weekend for the [...]

That’s me last night: if I’m anything, I’m kinetic.I know some people think using quotations evinces a fundamental lack of creativity. That might be true, but I still love other people’s words. A few from today. “There is only one story of our lives and we tell it over and over again, in a thousand [...]

Just another weekend in paradise.We had a brief but wonderful visit last night with Hadley, John, Charlotte, and baby Jack. Charlotte and Gracie are really starting to develop their own relationship and it’s just so heart-warming to watch. Nothing better than second generation friendships – Charlotte and Julia Sussman are the two obvious daughters-of-dear-friends who [...]

I love my little man:Was looking at random websites just now with Whit on my lap, and when a picture of Kate Moss came across the screen he shouted: “Wow, that’s you, Mummy!”   Email this post