1) Go visit my boyfriend David at
Gillette Stadium with Mo, TimmyJ, Kristina and Trey? And have a KILLER tailgate? Check.
2) Have a lovely, intimate dinner party for six people? And while sitting around the firepit after desert, have the Newburyport Police Department arrive and advise us that one of our (lovely) neighbors called to complain about us because they are trying to sleep with the windows open? Check.
3) Watch in horror -- actual horror -- as Tom Brady was lying on the turf in Foxboro? Check.
4) Hike up the beautiful
Lions Head Mountain portion of the Appalachian Trail in Salisbury, Connecticut? But get to the top and not be able to see our hands in front of our face due to fog? So decide to use one of last year's Lions Head photos below? Check.
5) Continue to enjoy my private daily morning hikes at
Old Town Hill? And then start to notice that there are more and more people joining me on the trail up to the top? Then get my new issue of
Newburyport Magazine and find that they have named it one of the "North Shore's Best Kept Secrets?" Silently curse? Check.
6) Accept Mom and Dad's generous invitation to join them at the beautiful
Island Inn on the absolutely spectacular
Monhegan Island, 10 miles off the coast of Maine? Get gloriously lost all over said island while hiking with Dad? Still manage to stop and enjoy the breathtaking views? Check.
7) Observe a pair of Bald Eagles hanging out on a ledge while on the
ferry back to the mainland? Check.
8) Gleefully watch our boys take the
Ryder Cup back where it belongs? Check!
9) Install the bee-youtiful dovecote that DickieJ created for us in honor of our 15th anniversary on top of the shed? Check.
10) Not want to get out from under blankets because of this year's "World's Worst Flu?" Ugh. Check.
2) Have a lovely, intimate dinner party for six people? And while sitting around the firepit after desert, have the Newburyport Police Department arrive and advise us that one of our (lovely) neighbors called to complain about us because they are trying to sleep with the windows open? Check.
3) Watch in horror -- actual horror -- as Tom Brady was lying on the turf in Foxboro? Check.
4) Hike up the beautiful Lions Head Mountain portion of the Appalachian Trail in Salisbury, Connecticut? But get to the top and not be able to see our hands in front of our face due to fog? So decide to use one of last year's Lions Head photos below? Check.
5) Continue to enjoy my private daily morning hikes at Old Town Hill? And then start to notice that there are more and more people joining me on the trail up to the top? Then get my new issue of Newburyport Magazine and find that they have named it one of the "North Shore's Best Kept Secrets?" Silently curse? Check.
6) Accept Mom and Dad's generous invitation to join them at the beautiful Island Inn on the absolutely spectacular Monhegan Island, 10 miles off the coast of Maine? Get gloriously lost all over said island while hiking with Dad? Still manage to stop and enjoy the breathtaking views? Check.
7) Observe a pair of Bald Eagles hanging out on a ledge while on the ferry back to the mainland? Check.
8) Gleefully watch our boys take the Ryder Cup back where it belongs? Check!
9) Install the bee-youtiful dovecote that DickieJ created for us in honor of our 15th anniversary on top of the shed? Check.
10) Not want to get out from under blankets because of this year's "World's Worst Flu?" Ugh. Check.
