I am being tortured by all of the decorations and some of them honestly just beg to be touched. Poor Santa gets dismantled on a regular basis--one because he is a jolly old elf and two, he is just my size (and within my reach). It wasn't me, really!
Married in Alexandria Bay, New York on August 27, 2002 we celebrated the addition of Martha Ann Mitchell on November 3, 2008. Since we didn't know the sex of our baby to be and looked at potential names for our little one, we discussed family name options—Stairvester Shanks seemed to stick the best while Martha continued to grow and thus we are using it for the title of her blog.