My niece is playing Ursula in the Jr version of The Little Mermaid, today. She absolutely stole the show. Charlotte is so animated and talented and has an amazing singing voice that made my jaw drop when she hit the crescendo in Poor Unfortunate Souls.

I’m a heck of a proud aunt, Char. Great job today and I can’t wait to see what you do next! Get me a video so I can post it for people to see!

Hey Tumblrs!

My sister, Laura, has a new blog where she is posting recipes, photos of her daughter & documenting the daily disasters that are her adorable dogs. If any of those items interest you, bop on over to her corner of the internet.

Happy 44th Birthday, Dan. Every time August 5th rolls around I can hear you singing the birthday cake song in my head… “Al is great, she made me a chocolate cake!”

Dan’s been gone a little over a month now, and I haven’t written a post about this yet. I’m not sure what to write, to be honest. There is a lot about this experience that I don’t want to share on a blog. I don’t know that I will ever share more than this one post. Part of me is unsure of even putting this much out there.

I suppose that for now, this is enough. I hope that where you are there is cake and ice cream aplenty. I’m thinking about you today.