I hope everyone had a most excellent start to the New Year. Judging from my brief visits on Twitter and Facebook over the last 72 hours or so, it appears that many of you have in fact done exactly that. And what about the Island Family, you ask? Well. We did have a wonderful […]
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A New Year’s Eve Thank You
When I began An Island Mom last spring, in one sense, I was the unlikeliest of people to start a blog. I’m kind of a private person, believe it or not, in many ways. Really. But by the time I found myself waist-deep in the world of blogging as a reader, I knew, without doubt, […]
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A Peek At The New Year
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, the New Year doesn’t start until Sunday, but I thought I’d give you a little peek of what you can expect on An Island Mom in 2012, if your ears are available for the lending. 1. For those of you into this sort of thing, baby-girl is starting cheerleading for the first […]
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Merry Christmas, Y’all!
Well, better late than never, I guess. We finally got around to making some beach-themed Christmas ornaments on Thursday night. These were the ornaments I purchased the supplies for two weeks ago, right before The Big Nasty struck. I bought some clear empty bulbs, and, to make it easy, a bag of tiny shells and […]
On This Christmas Eve Eve
First things first. I just spent an hour this morning drinking coffee, looking at the ocean, and watching this guy surf in front of my house. Hailing from Chicago, I don’t think I’ll ever stop getting a kick out of things like surfing on Christmas Eve Eve. But, on to more pressing issues, namely food. […]
A Coastal Living Christmas?
I love, love, love the magazine Coastal Living. I have since the first time I saw it, all those years ago sitting in the most unexpected and unworthy of places, in a Chicago podiatrist’s office, surrounded by old ladies complaining of bunions, jocks sporting fresh injuries and everyone in between. It was like a glimmering […]