I wish you, your family and friends the best in 2011. I am calling this the year of the Grants because we can only move forward, right. No point in looking back, 2010 is over. VIVA LA 2011
New York City Single Mom – 2009 Accomplishments Recap
Here I am entering the new decade and new year the same way I started it, without a job. The big question is am I worse off than I was when the year started? Emphatically and enthusiastically, NO! As Suze Orman said, when I told her my story about being laid off, “Congratulations!!” I can […]
Wordless Wednesday – Girls will be Boys
Sunday was a gorgeous day so we ran out so my daughter could ride her bike. Lo and behold, there she is trying to run over a plot of dirty snow. Seriously, she looks for dirt wherever she goes although I shouldn’t complain since she pretty much wears what I tell her. I am hanging […]
Merry Christmas Everyone
Enjoy the day with your families!!!.
New York Single Mom Staycation Travelogue Christmas – Santa Arrives
Christmas Day Santa’s footprints. Santa is a lucky guy getting his chocolate milk in a fancy crystal champagne glass. My daughter’s choice. The anticipation of having to wait to open gifts.
NYC Single Mom Staycation Travelogue December 24, 2009 – Baking Cookies
December 24, 2009 – Decided to bake cookies for Santa’s arrival tonight. This is what the cookies were supposed to look like and… Well, it’s the thought that counts and that my daughter and I did these together as a family. For all the bakers, cake, cookie and cupcake decorators, you are my heroines and […]
Adoption Tale – Is She Really Adopted
Recently, one of my daughter’s classmates came up to me and asked “Is she really adopted?” “Yes,” I said and off she went. Of course, I am thinking to myself, Noisy brat. Her mother then commented that she thought it was amazing that my daughter is so comfortable with saying it to people. In some respects, […]
First Snow Storm of 2009 – Wordless Wednesday
How can you resist heading out into the first snow storm of the year? In New York City, if you aren’t out there early after a couple of hours, the snow is pretty icky from all the people trudging through the snow. Now I have to get out and buy a sled just in case […]
Fantastic Four New Television Shows – A Wrap -Up
Now that the Fall shows are in hiatus and I have had the opportunity to view the fall episodes, I can provide a yeah or nay as to if the hype was on target. Here are my favorite four New Television Shows that premiered in Fall 2009. Go Hulu or the shows network site to […]
Wordless Wednesday – Future Rockette?
Last month, courtesy of my mom blogger friend Beth Feldman @rolemommy.com, we headed off to the opening night of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. P.S. I love the dress she is wearing and am sad that it is the last year she will be able to wear it. Full disclosure, my daughter and I have […]
