smiling in south carolina

we have sky tv satellite at our house. however, robin and i are not huge tv watchers. with the exception of the occasional cartoon, "amazing animal videos", "drake and josh", and "mythbusters", we don't have much quality programming to choose from! take away the sleeze, the violence, the bad language, excessive commercials and anything re-run and what do you have left? top chef! every wednesday night at 8 robin and i have been watching (what is probably last season's) top chef. if you don't already know it, top chef is the reality competition show about cooking. every week, after a few fun and grueling tests of skill and/or creativity one of the top chef hopefuls is asked to "pack your knives and go". they are now down to the last 4. it is a fun show for robin and i to watch together because we both get to learn alot about cooking and food: meal preparation, food combinations, cooking techniques. plus, there is the side benefit of the...

wow, it's alread january 13th! happy new year! it's been a busy few weeks here for us: christmas came and went. we had a great couple of days together here at home. on christmas eve robin, bobby and i ate m&m's and lasagna and salad for dinner. we also kicked off our new holiday tradition of hot fudge sundaes on christmas eve. yum. i think that went over pretty well! later we laughed our way through the movie "a christmas story" (which we now own in 2 DVD 20th anniversary version). on christmas day we opened our presents! under our tree we had a very repectable pile of gifts from each other and family. robin had the most, of course. he got some great new books, a wierd animals calendar, knit cotton boxers, a quilted tennis racket cover, a new watch, a toy hummer, a boy's-only diary, a make-your-own bird house kit, a jump rope, a che guevara t-shirt direct from cuba-and more. the pictures are of my cupid charm from bob and robin's t-shirt. unfortunately...

the are pictures of some of the things robin and i are wishing for this christmas. c'mon santa! send us 2 tickets to south carolina! plus, we want to see snow! maybe just for a day or 2-then it can go away. and we can't wait to see all the family and hold new baby lily and kiss her tiny little toes.... robin's latest (3 months) wish dream is wanting a black miniature poodle, a girl dog, whom he intends to name Roxy. and outfit with a black spiked collar. and of course, doesn't EVERYONE want a wii? so that we can pretend to play tennis and drive fast and fly and do all that? robin needs new tennis shoes, so i offered to look for converse high tops. instead he decided he HAD to h ave the all black ones. they aren't available in his size 3, for some, and besides, they are really expensive. so dream on! ALL the kids seem to have mp4 players these days, so of course robin wants one...music's not good enough for ya anymore? ah, the age of technology. what is...

Wishing you....a love-filled Winter Solstice. Did you know? Stonehenge is a perfect marker of both solstices. In Ireland, the megalithic site of Newgrange is said to be over 5,000 years old. Older than Stonehenge AND the pyramids. On the Winter Solstice, its central chamber receives at dawn a shaft of sunlight. The light illuminates a stone basin and inticate carvings of eye shapes, solar disks, and spirals. Hugs, Stephanie and Robin