I’m certain I’ve said it here before when I reviewed the Shakespeare in the Park version of Into the Woods, but the Sondheim musical is my all-time favorite. I love the story, but mostly I love how it works on multiple levels. When I first saw the original Broadway production, I was seven years old. It was my first trip to Broadway and I was completely in awe of the fairy tale I saw before me. Little Red Ridinghood was […]

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The Roberts Family Celebration season officially came to an end (well, for the time being anyway!) with Kara and Rich’s wedding over the recent three day weekend. Their wedding was the culmination of all the events we’ve been going to, and it’s somewhat sad to see them go as we always knew there was another function in which we would all see each other again. I guess we’ll just have to keep celebrating milestones as adults to bring us together! […]

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The Roberts Family Celebration Season continues with the first of our two family weddings. This time around, it was a celebration of my cousin Jordan and his fiance Colette. The wedding was a weekend extravaganza, held in Big Indian, New York at the Full Moon Resort. Family and friends from various corners all gathered together to celebrate. I, along with my sister, brother-in-law and niece, drove up Friday after work to begin the celebration. After a very brief settling in […]

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Our family whirlwind of parties keeps on going! This past Saturday, we celebrated the second of our two family brides. This time around the shower was for my cousin Kara, who will be marrying Rich in January. The whole family (minus a few key members, such as our grandmother who couldn’t make it up from Virginia for the event) gathered together, along with some of Kara’s closest friends, to celebrate the upcoming wedding. The shower was held in Westchester, at […]

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“The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.” I’ve always thought Amy Poehler was hilarious, but after reading her new book Yes, Please, I am convinced that she is somehow my big sister. Or at the very least a long lost cousin. But clearly we’re related. Not […]

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Next up for the family celebrations was my niece/goddaughter’s baptism. This was the day after the bridal shower for Colette and so it was a big weekend of family fun. The day began with me heading over to mom’s to help watch the baby while everyone cleaned up and got set up for the party. I was on baby duty and so it was my job to make sure the Pickle was entertained and happy while everyone was busy. I […]

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This year, my usual Halloween partner was sadly not available, but I wasn’t going to let that come between me and my defending my Most Creative Costume award! I am the winner two years running (aside from the year that we didn’t do the Halloween thing, though I am positive I would’ve won that one too!). At first, I wasn’t going to do anything – but this was mostly because I genuinely had no idea what I wanted to do […]

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Over the next three months, my family is celebrating a number of special events – from weddings to baptisms to anniversaries. This means a lot of time together at various events leading up to and including the main ones. The festivities kicked off this weekend with the bridal shower for Colette, who will soon be officially joining the family when she marries my cousin Jordan in December. On Saturday, October 25, we all headed upstate to eat, drink, open gifts […]

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