Mac’s birthday was also our first date, so we celebrate our dating anniversary around the same time as his birthday (for the record, we actually started dating before we went on a date). I made him another care package for his birthday. I wound up shipping the cupcakes separately in a medium flat rate box….
Since we had our first date on Mac’s birthday, I decided to send him two different care packages in March. We spent our first date splitting a pepperoni pizza Monday night special that set Mac back less than $10, so the first (for our anniversary) is a pizza care package. Tragically, I have yet to find…
There are several other bloggers I follow whose husbands are also currently deployed. I think we all try to put on a brave face and see the silver lining in these situations. But some days just suck. You’re tired, lonely, in a bad mood, or just need to see the face of the one you…
I decided to go with “I’m Nuts About You” as a theme for Mac’s Valentine’s Day care package. Obviously, I have a borderline unhealthy obsession with squirrels. I wrapped the nuts and the cookie bars in Saran wrap, put them in Ziploc bags and then in plastic containers. The Mio and water enhancers also go…
Ah, Valentine’s Day. The one day a year when men are socially obligated to be romantic. Don’t mind me, I’m just bitterly cynical. In the five years we’ve been together, Mac and I have only gone out for one Valentine’s Day. It was our first, and we’d been dating 11 months. It also involved four separate…
Anyone else in the winter doldrums? Anyone else think of The Phantom Tollbooth after using the word doldrums? Nope, just me? It snowed another foot last night. Normally, I mock Northern Virginia’s fear of snow, but hot shit, I haven’t seen this much snow since we had a major blizzard in Blacksburg my senior year….