Stilettos in the Sand…...

DH has asked me to refrain from saying some of the things I really, really want to say until some retirement paperwork is complete and the m...

We are home!!! The United States of America! We made it. My gosh, what a long, long trip it was. Thirty-one hours? Longer? We left Saudi a...

THAT is an UNDERSTATEMENT! You cannot possibly imagine all that has to be done in order to leave The Sandbox. It is more difficult to get ...

KLM has will NOT fly The Boy home. They will take The Baby, but not The Boy. I am working on it right now. This will change absolutely ev...

There is probably a lot to blog about. Like this "child" bride who was ten when her father sold her to an 80-year-old pedophile...

Stilettos in the Sand will soon be Stilettos in the States. It is all over. Done. My sentence, here, is up. I have served my time. Almo...

DH and I have errands to do this morning. Really only one of us needs to do them. That would be me, but since I cannot get in the truck an...

His name will be Coen Robert. He is due to arrive on or about September 10th. Now, if you'll excuse me, there is MUCH shopping to be a...

I cannot really discuss the situation, known as "Limbo," happening with us here in The Sandbox. I just am not at liberty, yet, to...

Have to share something with you. Has almost nothing but everything to do with this cookbook "faux pas" that calls for " fre...

Still overwhelmed. Also in limbo. Cannot say anything more about my "limbo" until it isn't "limbo" anymore. Rest ass...

Blame it on global warming or some such crap. Really it has been bizarre, though. The storms we've been having. Thunder, lightening a...

It is all catching up with me. The jet lag. The pain in the butt getting the luggage saga. Just taking a shower in salt water. Again. Y...

What a nightmare. Losing your luggage. I think I have a right to be furious about it. Although I am much less aggravated about the whole ...

Like I expected anything to change? No. I guess I didn't. Another maid is dead . How many have to die? Never mind. Rhetorical ques...

Depending on whether or not Qatar finds my luggage... Not a "happy camper" right now.

One of my favorite lunch spots when we go to Triangle Town Center or Streets of Southpoint mall is Champps. I order the same thing. Alwa...

Yet again, my time at home has flown by. It always does. I see the doctor one more time this week, then I get on a plane and head back to ...

Plans to go to Charlotte this week to see my DS. And, to meet for the first time his current girlfriend [wife-to-be] and mother of my first...

So plastic surgery in the States is going to be taxed five percent , after all. Thought that tax was supposed to be removed from the debacl...