Valentine’s day at the beach

Alec and I finally used a gift certificate we received when we got married and headed for our favorite house at the beach this past weekend. We headed down to the coast Friday morning, knowing very well that we would never leave by noon had we gone into the office. We both worked from our [...]

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Belated Christmas Eve with the family

The roads had finely cleared and dried up enough to travel over the river and through the suburbs to mom’s house last night. After picking up Mr. Casey, we braved some post-holiday shopping traffic near Washington Square and settled in for a really nice evening with the family. Mom’s house was decorated to a ‘t’ [...]

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Merry Christmas

Alec and I woke up today to a peaceful, snow-covered Christmas morning. We poured ourselves some coffee, turned on Willie Nelson’s Christmas album and hunkered down to open a few little things we’d purchased for each other; a cashmere sweater, fleece lined khakis and socks for Alec, and a JCrew cardigan and pink slippers with [...]

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Snow!

Now it really feels like Christmas! We woke up to soft flurries and by the time we bundled up to trek to the gym, it was a blizzard outside. We ditched the idea of sweating it out at the gym and drove (very slowly) to Doug Fir for a big breakfast instead. The roads are [...]

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2nd annual Holiday Soup Party

Our 2nd annual Holiday Soup Party and open house was a hit! Our friends and family packed the house throughout the day to celebrate the holidays, drink beer and wine, eat lots of soup, cookies and cakes, and drop off toys for some needy families. Alec made two soups this year: a spicy black bean [...]

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

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