he said. she said. a married couple's blog.

Thursday, January 10

There are some new (to you) pictures up in the gallery from around Christmastime.

Friday, January 4

Christmas was great. Bridget had so much fun. And so did the rest of us. Now that I have a new flash (thanks Santa), we'll be able to take better indoor pictures like this one:

Labels: bridget, christmas

Saturday, December 22

request

Children's toys should always come in a square package, with no open sides. It would make wrapping so much easier!

Labels: bridget, christmas

Sunday, December 16

choo choo!

Since we didn't have anything going on yesterday, I thought it might be nice to take Bridget to a train garden. I just assumed that it was a common thing everywhere. Apparently not. It seems like it might be a Maryland/Baltimore thing. I could not find a single one in Virginia. I just thought it was something Volunteer Fire Departments did. Not so much. We'll have to hit up the AVFD when we go to my parents' next weekend.

Labels: bridget, christmas, family, nostalgia

Saturday, December 15

a few things

My book club meets the second Monday of every month. When did I show up? The second Tuesday. The poor host's husband answered the door and was all confused. I just thought I was the first one there. She was very sweet -- and I wasn't too terribly embarrassed.

Christmas is so much more fun now that there's Bridget. She loved picking out a tree (she tried to hug all the little trees). She's entranced by the Christmas lights. I could tell that she was a little confused when we brought the tree inside and started putting the lights on it, but once we plugged them in she said, "Oooooh!" It was perfect.

At the grocery store some time this week, I almost broke down crying: they were playing The Marvelous Toy over the sound system. I am such a sap. My brother and I used to make Dad play us that song when we were little.

Labels: bridget, christmas, lists

Tuesday, December 26

Merry (belated) Christmas!

Merry Christmas to everyone.

Bridget had no idea what was going on, but the rest of us enjoyed it. We spent Saturday with my mother, Sunday with Jessica's family, then Christmas day with just the three of us sitting around the house for some much needed rest. Bridget even took a couple of long naps (long=more than 45 minutes normally), each lasting about an hour-and-a-half. We consider this to be the "Christmas Miracle."

The naps gave us time to make and enjoy a partial Irish Breakfast (everything except for the puddings and beans, see picture below). That's not ham, it's a rasher (Irish bacon), and it's awesome. I even made the brown bread that morning.

You can also check out the disaster that used to be our living room:

Tons of pictures from all the visits and yesterday morning can be found in the Christmas 2006 gallery. Bridget has her own Christmas gallery, with a lot of extra pictures.

Hope everyone else had a good holiday. I, unfortunately, must work today.

Labels: bridget, christmas, family

Friday, December 8

overload

Bridget and I went Christmas shopping the other day. It was so annoying. Generally, I like shopping; however, shopping during the holiday season drives me insane. Take the toy store for example. There was a little train that was running around in a circle on a track and was playing "Jingle Bells" over and over and over. Plus there was another train making noise running around on the floor. And Christmas music playing in the store. I could not wait to get out of there. Fortunately, we went right when the mall opened and since it's a weekday, it wasn't too crowded. Most of the other stroller-pushing mothers were there waiting to get their kids photos with Santa.

Labels: bridget, christmas, shopping