I climbed to the top of the Jupiter Lighthouse a couple of days ago. I’ve been wanting to tour the lighthouse since our first visit here last spring, but I couldn’t get the kids to come with me, because the Jupiter Lighthouse and Museum has the M word in it and the kids announced […]
Christmas Cards
I’d like to be able to report that all my Christmas cards are in and I’m ready to give you the results of the Unofficial Fitzpatrick Christmas Card Contest. I’d also like to say I got all my cards mailed out with the correct addresses and with real stamps on the upper right corner instead […]
Playing School
My holiday party season is over. I actually was glad to get up this morning and re-enter my normal life, even though it means getting up at 5:30 a.m., packing my husband’s lunch and wearing non-party shoes. The high point of my holiday parties was playing school with Ashleigh, who led some of the […]
Janet and Me
I had the most wonderful new year’s celebration. My lifelong friend, Janet, and her family came to visit us from St. Petersburg. Janet and I recently reconnected, so while we had a lot of catching up to do (like she didn’t know that I waitressed at Howard Johnson’s in college and I was not aware […]
Shoppapalooza
As the regular readers of this blog know, my mother-in-law is staying with us for the winter and it’s been just one big, long Happy Hour on the back porch, in the car, in the mall, in the kitchen, everywhere. I’ve not done this much shopping ever. I’m almost starting to like shopping. We leave […]
Breakfast of Champions
I’m having company for New Year’s (please pray for me, that I’ll be able to stay awake until at least 12:15 a.m. Jan. 1 – it could be embarrassing to fall asleep watching an ancient, post-stroke Dick Clark radiating vim and vigor on live TV, putting me to shame). My friend Janet and her husband […]