Family Life | Table for Five

December 30, 2010 By Elizabeth

Hi! I'm still here! I haven't posted since before Christmas, which I know sucks, and I really have no good excuse except to say that I've been watching the backs of the boys' heads while they play nonstop video games and letting Kaitlyn play way too much Nintendo DS doing lots of intellectually enriching activities with the kids, and that has kept me pretty busy. As an overall holiday, Christmas was pretty good this year. We went to my parents' house for Christmas Eve, which we do most years. My brother, his girlfriend, and her son were there, plus my stepbrother and stepsister, plus Dad and Jean, so it was crowded, but we had a lot of fun. We have a buffet dinner and the kids open presents, and when it gets too crazy we shoo the kids down to the finished basement to watch TV. A neighbor stopped by to drop off a gift and snapped a quick photo of everybody. Thanks to the PR firm repping Bob Evans, I contributed a "Farmhouse Feast" to our dinner. I have to give a shout-out … [Read more...]

If you call me, please be a parent

November 10, 2008 By Elizabeth

a big thank you to Lisa who provided the post title in an IM chat last night after I told her this story and she said I HAD to blog it! For a little backstory, on Thursday afternoon I knocked our only a few months old Plantronic phone off of the sideboard and the handset somehow broke inside, because no matter what my husband and I tried, we could not get the phone to turn on again. We keep an old "real" phone, the kind where the handset is actually attached to the base with a curly cord, for such emergencies, so Chris plugged that in for me. Yesterday after an early lunch, I had just given Kaitlyn a bath and dried her off when the phone rang. Because I couldn't walk around with the phone in my hand, I had to stand there talking on the phone before I had a chance to get Kaitlyn dressed. Fortunately it was a warm 72 degrees in the house. So there I am, on the phone with Ken from Oh! Toys, talking about an upcoming product review I'm doing for him on MomReviews, when Kaitlyn … [Read more...]