The dining room just got 16″ smaller . . .

Yesterday the familia sans Toby went to Westfield’s Valley Fair Mall to check out their after Christmas sales.  It doesn’t matter what mall we go to because for some reason, I always always have to set foot inside Pottery Barn and William Sonoma.  Pottery Barn had some great sales going on so I managed to [...]

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No I don’t work here . . .

nor have I ever.  One must think I’m sooo into Macy’s because of these Christmas ornaments, huh?  Don’t get me wrong . . . I do like Macy’s.  Well, I wanted to take the picture of these ornaments because the one on the left hand side with the white handle was bought back in 1986 [...]

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Toby’s First Christmas . . .

I didn’t like any nor could I find the ornament I wanted for Toby’s First Christmas so I decided to just get the silver photo ornament from Aaron Brothers and inserted the picture that we took of Toby when we first brought him home at 3 months old.
These are a few of the toys [...]

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Need I say more . . .

Thanks to my good ol’ buddy “Yawo” who gave me a Starbuck’s gift card and some Scharffen Berger Chocolates from a colleague . . . I was happy as happy can be. BTW . . . I happened to buy the magnet last Friday at noon time not knowing I was going to be [...]

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Christmas Wrap-Up . . .

Well, I hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas with family & friends. Now that Christmas has come and gone, I’m finally able to “relax.” This year was the first year that I was wrapping and bagging most of the presents on Christmas Eve, not to mention last minute shopping the last [...]

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