No Nap Until 11

Milly stayed up until 11:00 this morning before going down for her morning nap.  It’s getting later and later, which isn’t the best thing for me, work-wise.  Then again, she does a pretty good job of entertaining herself.  This morning she wanted to go out in the backyard, so I let her. I took the […]

Small Group Baby Shower

Amanda made her first ever cheese ball for Hudson Cain’s baby shower today, and it was quite good.  We went over to Joel and Mia’s for small group/the baby shower.  It was mostly a lot of hanging out and talking to people and catching up with some people I haven’t seen in a long time. […]

Halloween Magic

I’m seeing all this stuff on TV about Halloween, and I can’t help but think back to when the spookiness of Halloween had some power in my imagination.  I guess I’m too grown up to feel that anymore.  It’s a bittersweet thing, I think. Milly woke up at 4:00 this morning and did not want […]

Sunday Traditions

We went to church as per usual today.  Milly was dressed in a plaid red dress, black tight and shoes and a jean jacket.  Absolutely adorable.  After church we went to Atlanta Bread, which has become one of our Sunday traditions, and after we ate we walked around Mayfaire a bit. Milly was extremely sociable. […]

Raking and Scrapbooking

Milly wanted to go outside today, so I took her out back.  Since she just wanted to wander around a bit, I thought I’d clean up a few things in the yard.  I ended up trimming the rose bush, the four o’clocks and a number of trees and other bushes.  Then I raked a bit. […]