We are finally going on vacation. Yahoo!!! It's been a long six months, and we really need to get away. Really!!! My son is graduating from VMI, so we will go to VA and plan around the festivities that VMI is planning for us. This is not your typical graduation. This will be a four day event with the first ceremony happening Friday night. The graduation itself doesn't happen until next Tuesday. Our youngest son and his girlfriend will meet us there as well. So we get to hang out, th...

It's going to be a long hard winter. That's what I've heard. We live in the NE and in an area known to get pretty much the higest snow levels in our part of the state. It's usually the hottest here in the summer and coldest in the winter. The local weathermen usually use our town as a barometer usually as the highest high or lowest low. Grrrrrrrrrr or should I say brrrrrrrrrr? So I had this great idea. Let's go on a cruise. We've never been on one and we have an opportunity to go fo...

I have never traveled on an airplane with a very young child. The first time my children flew they were well into grade school the oldest already in middle school. That was the year we went to Oregon/Washington looking for a possible job relocation. In about three weeks or so my D-I-L is flying for the first time with baby Ethan who will be just shy of 10 months. Can you believe it already? Ten months!! They are coming here for a whole month!!! Anyhow she's a bit nervous abou...

I loved cruising!! What a blast!! I've heard mixed reviews so I wasn't sure, but we had a blast in the Bahamas as well as on the boat. Now I'm home and we're in the middle of our first significant snowstorm of the season. We haven't even been home 36 hours yet. It is 54 degrees colder here than the day I left. This leads me to question myself. Why am I here? This particular cruise was a Christian one. So that meant, no alcohol and no gambling which suited us just fine. By ...

I am now not looking forward to my upcoming trip in January. At least not the flying part that is. We are to fly into Florida to catch a ship to cruise into the Bahamas. The warm weather, the sand, the water...all sounds great. But to fly the not so friendly skies....nope. Not looking forward to it. Not one bit, especially after what happened yesterday and today. David was to fly into our local airport which tends to be pretty pricey in contrast to the other airport that's twice as ...