Yesterday was a day of much celebration! Louisa did an AMAZING job at the Marine Corps Marathon, with an average pace of 10:33/mile. So proud of her! As my parents were in town to cheer her on, it was also the first chance we had to get together as a family and celebrate Louisa and [...]

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Just popping in to wish my little sis the very best of luck as she runs the Marine Corps Marathon this weekend on behalf of the Washington Humane Society. Her first! She’s trained her little butt off and raised over $1,000 for the animals. Go get it Louisa Bell! Very proud of you. xo  

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Oh BOY is life a little nuts right now. So forgive my infrequent postings please, I would love to share everything that’s been happening but I’m afraid I cannot! I really believe that in a few weeks everything will be sorted and I’m going to have some great news to share. But until then we [...]

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Hello from Cleveland! As mentioned, I’m home for a few days on my way up to Canada. The drive from DC – Toronto would have been a long one all on its own, so I’m taking a break half-way to visit my parents. I figure I should take advantage of this period of semi-unemployment to [...]

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Hi Bloggies! Happy start of the week. This weekend was a particularly fun one work-wise, for instead of spending all three days in the tasting room, on Saturday I got to attend the Long Branch Hot Air Balloon Wine and Music Festival with Hume. Lucky for us, while the weather had been HORRIBLE on Friday, [...]

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Hi everyone! I hope you’re having a great weekend so far. I’m popping in for an unusual Sunday posting to tell you about a little launch party I attended last Thursday night. It can’t wait any longer . Oyamel is an incredibly yummy restaurant owned by one of DC’s most famous chefs, Jose Andres. His [...]

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Hi! Get ready for a picture overload…I always get a little too excited when wine tasting . As mentioned, on Monday Louisa, Jackie and I took advantage of having the same day off (which never happens!) and headed out for a day of outlet shopping and wine tasting. Of COURSE outlet shopping was fun and [...]

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Hi Bloggies! I hope you’re having a lovely day. As a former employee, my heart was truly broken when Borders had to close. But I must admit, I shopped for book deals among the sad ruins. One of my happy finds was a cookbook I’ve been eyeing for a while, “Miss Dahl’s Voluptuous Delights” by [...]

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Hi and welcome back from the long weekend! I have such a random collection of pictures on my camera from the last few days, I just don’t know where to begin. So today we’ll do a little collage of the smaller weekend happenings and then I’ll spend some time detailing the bigger ones in the [...]

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Hi Loves! It’s SO nice here this week, I’m just loving it! The forecast says the weather will be just as beautiful all weekend and I’m excited because I’ll be pouring wine at the Hot Air Balloon Wine & Music Festival in VA. How glorious is that?? I’ve been hard at work job hunting all [...]

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