Marc's Birthday - The Gifts

Saturday morning, Lullabelle slept in a bit - she didn't start wagging her tail until about 6:00am. That tail hitting the endtable or headboard will quickly wake you up!

Since it was Marc's birthday, I got up before LB woke Marc and feed the dogs. But before I went back to sleep, I put Marc's gifts next to his side of the bed so he could open them when he got up.
Once awake, Marc got a little help from Lullabelle when he opened the gift from the doggies.

Sandy wondered why Marc was wearing his new bike helmet. Or why he wasn't giving her a belly rub.

Then Marc modeled his new Ohio State University board shorts - a gift from my parents. O-H!

Not a bad way to start a birthday . . .

Happy Birthday Marc!

Random Wednesday - Do It Again Edition

My brother and his boys

Lazy Weekend

For the first weekend in 5 weeks, we had no plans. Nothing. Nada. And it was fabulous! We slept in, watched some stuff on the DVR and lounged around the house. Then we sat by the pool, saw Star Trek at the movies (LOVED it!) and watched a lot of UGA Softball in the World Series on ESPN.

I hope your weekend was wonderful, too!

Memorial Day Trip

Last weekend, Marc and I flew out to Arkansas to visit his fabulous friends Toby and Natasha. I had not met them before, although Natasha and I had been facebook friends and hit it off as we shared our love of broadway musicals and Buffy.

Marc and I had a wonderful time with Toby, Natasha and their kids and we can't wait to visit again very soon. Sadly, I didn't get any pictures of us together, but I know Natasha did - so e-mail them to me soon, please! :-)

As we flew into Arkansas, I was very interested in how the landscape looked. It reminded me of a patchwork quilt.

Doggie Love

We have been out of town for the past two weekends, and we left the doggies at home with one of Marc's students. So when we got home yesterday, Marc wanted to give the girls lots of love!

Sandy's Turn

Usually it's Lullabelle sitting with Marc in his recliner, but last week Sandy wanted to get in on the action. Sandy NEVER wants to sit in a lap. I quickly grabbed the camera and got a couple of shots before she decided she had had enough and jumped down.

Lucky Mama

After 27 years of teaching hormonal high schoolers math, my mom is retiring. Her last day will actually be next Friday, but yesterday her high school had a retirement party for her. Thankfully, they consulted her kids on scheduling the party so we could all attend.



Mama has known the principal of Luella High School since the late 80s, when she was on the committee who interviewed him for a vice principal position at Stockbridge High (where she taught before Luella.) She always said if he was a principal somewhere, she would want to work for him. He got Luella when it opened in 2003 and Mama has taught there since. (It didn't hurt that it is a much shorter drive to work for her every day!) Principal Eckerle clearly thinks highly of my mother, and his remarks reflected that esteem.


One of my mama's students found out she was retiring and burst into the party; he couldn't believe she was retiring.

Hudson and Bowen enjoyed the party, and practiced sitting in desks.

Now Mama plans to spend more time at the beach, will work on her new porch and on her yard. She will spend more time with her sisters and told Daddy she might even start cooking again. Mama will also spend more time with her kids and grandchildren - and she was able to wait until we were about to leave to tell Marc and me that she was ready for some more little grandkiddies.

New York City

This past weekend, I had to go to New York for business, and Marc was able to join me for this trip. In between functions, we had a great time.

I had plans to see two Tony-nominated Broadway shows - Shrek and Rock of Ages. Instead we saw The Little Mermaid. (It was right across the street from our hotel. What can I say - we are lazy!) The show was a little long, but the costumes and scenery were amazing.

Since this was only Marc's second trip to NYC, we were a little touristy. We walked around Times Square at night (with a million other people!) to look at the lights and where the ball drops on New Year's Eve.

One of my work functions was the Peabody Awards. We saw our favorites Lost and Saturday Night Live pick up their awards, but didn't get to meet anyone famous this year. We did also see Laura Linney (for John Adams) and most of the cast of Breaking Bad.

Marc took his first subway ride.

And we went down to Battery Park to see the Statue of Liberty.

We walked around the park.

And then instead of dragging Marc to another Broadway show, we took in a Yankees game.

Marc is a big Yankees fan, so he was excited to go and see the new stadium.

We had great seats on the third base line, and the Yankees beat the Minnesota Twins 7-6.

While I packed lots of options, it was really chilly. Especially at the game. I had on three layers, and had the whole-body shakes by the time we left. I am clearly a Georgia girl!

Pay Attention To Lullabelle!

Please put the computer away and pet me.

Come on - I'm much better than whatever is on that screen.


Fine, I'll just nap for a while - but I'm not going away!


Ahhhh. . .better.

Much better!