The Jumpstart Project Week 1 -Friday, January 1 – Sunday, January 3 Friday, January 1, 2010 Made black eye peas and collard greens for the first time. You may not think this is different but given that my Japanese mother always served us mochi for good luck on New Year’s Day, our family was not […]
The Jumpstart Project – 365 Day Challenge to Shatter Complacency
Instead of telling you my New Year’s resolutions which frankly, I never keep, I have decided to Jumpstart (hence the title The Jumpstart Project) the new year and the new decade by challenging myself to do something different for the next 365 days. What does “different” mean? I haven’t the vaguest idea. I did […]
Happy New Year
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
No Notes Today
Today marks the fifth day that my daughter has not brought home a note. No note you say, huh? Last week, her teacher decided that instead of her writing notes to the parents telling us that our child is misbehaving that the children start the practice of writing their own note detailing their daily transgressions […]
My Favorite Christmas Ornament – Go Browns (That’s Right the Cleveland Browns)
This is my favorite Christmas ornament. I wish I had a prettier one from my youth but my sister seems to have inherited them all. After my parents died, she lived in their house and pretty much took everything that was left. It sounds worse than it is, I moved New York and she was […]
