Been a while

Wow, where has the month gone?! In a couple more days it will be Halloween and then the big rush of holidays through the end of the year. I love this time of year, though I could do with less cold ;-)

Isabelle has been very busy this month, and she adores her ballet class! They had a "visiting day" last Saturday where parents and guests could watch the last fifteen minutes of the class in the classroom. Isabelle at first thought we were taking her out and cried and told us to go. Once she realized that we were just there to watch, she was okay. We took some great pictures and really wonderful videos...okay, so I am such a geeky Mom.....and I love digital cameras. I have really great Cannon camera - the real kind with various lens and speeds - that I never use since getting my digital camera. I loved my Cannon and it does take excellent pictures....some of my pictures include the parade in Boston when the Patriots first won the Super Bowl and Tall Ships in Boston - both having been taken from the 35th floor of Exchange Place. It is an awesome camera! But alas, waiting for the prints to develop is just too much for me now-a-days. Maybe one day I'll buy one of those really nice professional digital cameras that is similar to my Cannon but produces the digital pic instead of using film. Ahhhh...technology.....

(Isabelle at the dance studio before her class)

(In class)

Anyway, tomorrow is Isabelle's second ever Halloween Boo-Bash. Her baby friends will be coming and I hope the weather is okay. Snow is predicted. How scary is that one as it is not even November yet?! My good friend from college visited yesterday, and her parents live in Canada - just outside Montreal, and they have snow already. I'm not ready for snow!


Enjoy the cool brisk autumn day....and until next time.....ta ta

Monday joke of the day: Living in New England

The following is a simple sort of funny. Sorry for not posting in a while. It has been a whirlwind of excitment, and I promise to update everyone before the end of the week. Enjoy!

Forget Red necks ......here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about New Englanders...
*If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you live in New England.
*If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you live in New England.
*If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in New England.
*If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you live in New England.
*If 'Vacation' means going anywhere south of New York City for the weekend, you live in New England.
*If you measure distance in hours, you live in New England.
*If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you live in New England.
*If you have switched from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day and back again, you live in New England.
*If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in New England.
*If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both unlocked, you live in New England.
*If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you live in New England.
*If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph -- you're going 80 and everybody is passing you, you live in New England.
*If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you live in New England.
*If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction, you live in New England.
*If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in New England.
*If you find 10 degrees 'a little chilly', you live in New England.
*If there's a Dunkin Donuts on every corner, you live in New England.