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 […]
December 5 -My One Year Anniversary of Being Laid Off
Wow, it’s hard to believe it’s been one year since that fateful day, December 5, 2008 that I was laid off. With so many hundreds of thousands of jobs shed over the last two years, I am surprised that no one has come up with a catchphrase to “mark” this traumatic moment in one’s life. […]
Wordless Wednesday – Growing Up Too Soon
One day, I will look back on this photo and think wow! what a cute coat she is wearing and why are her skirts so short? And good lord, who let her starting using and iPhone? Oh, me, bad parent.
A Second Home – Envious (Sometimes, Sometimes Not)
Years ago, I saw a story on Warren Buffet, the world’s richest man. In case you don’t know anything about Warren Buffet, he has lived in the same house for over 40 years and up until a few years ago drove a Cadillac for over 10 years. The reporter asked him if he had a […]
