About Jenny

Jenny is a wife, mother, grandma, artist and accountant living and working in western North Carolina.

Mister White

Moira spent a good portion of last year working on the make-up for an upcoming independent film. Marc even went down to visit her on the set (though photos were not allowed because the monster in this horror film had not yet been revealed).

Mister White is coming out of post-production and is [...]

Church

We’ve begun going to church again. Els and Dorothy join me each Sunday morning for mass at our local Catholic Church. Unlike our time in Gainesville, there aren’t many churches to choose from. We’re blessed that Hendersonville has a Catholic Church at all; two would be asking too much. The church is [...]

Honey

Once Dorothy began talking, she was really only able to identify “people who love me” as distinct from “people I don’t know”. As a consequence, we were all called Mommy, Marc, Elspeth and me. It was cute.

Eventually, as Marc moved into caring for Dorothy every day while Els went to school and worked, [...]

Mugging for the camera

These awesome mugs are the key to my successfully bringing leftovers to work for lunch. They have a great lid with a rocker-opening to let the steam out when microwaved. They used to come only in bisque white, but now come in great colors. We found ‘em on sale recently for $5.50 (approx) and [...]

I know a price when I see one!

Diapers are the bane of our existence. When we find a good price, we jump on it.

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In this case, we wanted these diapers. [...]

Christmas in Delaware

Okay, so I’m a little behind in posting. Here are some pics of our fabulous vacation in Delaware this Christmas.

We ate well (oh, so well): turkey/duck dinner, crepes for breakfast, grapefruit (new to me!) and iced rolls, Chris’s famous Chex Mix (which now contains even more goodies than you would imagine).

Can’t wait to [...]

Happy birthday, Dorothy!

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We celebrated Dorothy’s birthday with a visit to see Hotel Transylvania (starring an animated Adam Sandler among others) in 3D at the Asheville [...]

Yesterday

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away

Now it looks as though they’re here to stay

Oh, I believe in yesterday.

It’s time for our traditional credit-card-fraud-for-the-holidays celebration. Not that we celebrate annually, but it seems that every few years we manage to get hit by some [...]

Sunday: Big Crafty, Governor’s Western Residence, French Broad Chocolate Lounge, more!

We headed off Sunday morning to take a photograph for our Christmas card. (Yes, we’re sending Christmas cards again at long last this year.) This meant a morning with the tripod at Biltmore Park in front of their Christmas display (which looks like it’s where Santa is usually set up to take requests for [...]

Autumn

I’m getting ready for this amazing road trip I’m embarking on with my baby sister come the end of October. One step toward being ready involved getting a new tripod and testing it out.

This weekend I learned:

I can’t outrun a 2-second timer on my DSLR. This lead to my learning that I [...]