Month: August 2015

Almost Time: Eliza Jane Turns 1

It’s Wednesday.  I’m at T minus 2 days to get this house in “Happy First Birthday Eliza Jane!!!!!” party mode.  Between work this week {meetings! meetings! meetings!} and just being really tired {I’m already on caffeine/sugar overload!!}, there has been little time and little energy to do much of anything. However, the party must go…

Drip: The Restaurant

Drip: The Restaurant

Have you ever planned lunch with a friend and then said to her, “Where do you want to go for lunch?” and then you carried a 10-15 minute conversation about the fact that neither of you REALLY cared about what KIND of food you ate, but no one would decide on WHERE to go? Well, that…

1st Haircut: Eliza Jane

A few weeks ago some friends told me to take Reynolds to Snipits for his haircut.  He’s a bit, um, dramatic when it comes to getting “his ears lowered”.  The first time he went to Snipits, Andrew took him and he said R did great. “It was loud, kids music was playing, movies were on…lots of distractions.”…

Old McCaskill Has A Farm
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Old McCaskill Has A Farm

I really cannot tell y’all how great my morning was today.  It was spectacular!  Fantastic-o!  Amazing. I’ve shared with y’all in the past that Reynolds’ most favorite book {that has now been torn to pieces…} is ‘Big Red Barn’. He loves talking about all the animals, “The sheep and the donkeys, the geese and the…

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Who Am I?

I have been thrown into a complete tailspin. I took a Myers Briggs {or is it Briggs Myers?} type test today to see if my personality has changed any.  Here’s the deal.  I am an INTROVERT.  Say it slowly with me: IN.TRO.VERT. But when I tell people that they act shocked, like I punched them…