Living in Munchkinland

We spent Thurs-Monday in New Orleans for our annual trip with my mama. We've been going every year since 2007 I think. We never bring our kids for this trip and we really live it up. Michael loves New Orleans with a deep down passion. I love it too, and I think we do New Orleans really well. Usually we eat, drink and listen to music with occasional shopping interspersed and lots of meandering. This time our trip morphed into even more as mom closed on her condo; Tiff and Keith and Kade coincidentally were in New Orleans; and we had a very important brunch on Sunday. Thursday we arrived mid-day and met mama at the condo. We quickly unpacked, had a glass of wine and headed to the quarter. We took the street car down and shopped a bit down Chartres on our way to Frenchman, with a quick drink at Lafitte's. We had dinner at the Three Muses to hear Tom McDermott play and then wandered down to the Spotted Cat to see Miss Sophie Lee. After her set we walked over to Bamboulas for Mar...

Before the flu hit me last week, we had a visit from Marcie, Ann and the kids! Marcie and Ann went to see Fleetwood Mac, while I stayed home with kids. The next day, Ann was feeling bad, but the rest of us enjoyed exploring the mall. That evening the whole crew went to see a Nuggets game. We couldn't go as M was flying home and Davis had cyber patriots practice. The next day Davis competed in Cyber Patriots and Ann went to urgent care to find out she had type A Influenza. They all packed up and left that evening. I was so sad for them and for us as we didn't get more time to play, but I was happy with the visit as I really got some special time with all three kiddos and Marcie. The next morning we went to church as usual and then headed over to Suzy's for the superbowl. Suzy threw a lovely party with lots of delicious food and good friends. However, I have to say that the superbowl itself, was awful. The teams were uninspiring (Rams/Patriots) the scoring was record low, a...