Best of 2012

It seems as though 2012 has been a pretty great year. We're making this list so that when the unbearable winter months are upon us we can look back and remember that it is worth it to persevere.

Let's get it on!


Best baseball team:

Best human costume:

Best dog costume:

Best dressed:

Best grandma:

 Best lesbian photo:

 Best mallow roast:

Best massage:

Best rash decision:

Best scooter ride:

 Best sunscreen dummy:

Best sunset:

 Best T-shirt sale:

Best dance moves:

That about does it for us.
Desperately Yours, 2ladiesandnobaby

Now This is Good News...

Fellow Boy Meets World lovers, do I have some great news for you...

Check it!

Cory and Topanga are to be reunited at last! YES!

Your Best Holiday Season Yet

 Look at the festive gingerbread house making family.

 Hugh's 1st Christmas

The cutest of the snowmen. 

Recently I had a friend request a list of the best Christmas songs.  Kate and I combined are experts in the holiday season department whether it be music, movies, holiday food we KILL IT!  If you're lacking the holiday spirit head on over to the corner of Stratford and Glenmare, your grinchiness will evaporate instantly. Here's to you Cyberspace, may all of your dreams come true this Christmas!

Your 2012 Holiday Guide According to 2 Ladies With no Baby:

Songs:
Baby, It's Cold Outside                                             Dean Martin
Christmas in Killarney                                              Bing Crosby
Deck the Halls                                                          Nat King Cole
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing                                 Nat King Cole
Silver Bells                                                               Bing Crosby
It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas          Perry Como
Jingle Bells                                                               Bing Crosby
Let It Snow                                                               Dean Martin
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year                Andy Williams
Santa Claus is Coming to Town                               Bing Crosby
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas                   Coldplay (Chris Martin)
A Holly Jolly Christmas                                           Burl Ives
The First Noel                                                          David Archuleta
Oh Come All Ye Faithful                                         David Archuleta
I'll Be Home for Christmas                                       Hotel Cafe
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas                   Tyler Hilton

A Very She & Him Christmas (whole album)           She & Him

Movies:

It's a Wonderful Life
White Christmas
The Family Stone
Miracle on 34th Street
Elf
Christmas Vacation
The Holiday
A Christmas Story
Home Alone


Eats:

Pine Nuts
Peppermint Ice cream
Carmel Corn
Raspberry Sticks
Chocolate Oranges
Hazelnut/Peppermint Hot Cocoa
Eggnog (Southern Comfort Vanilla Spice)
Gingerbread

This house has already killed a hefty portion of this list, now it's your turn.

Most Important Suggestion: Shop EARLY! Nothing can spoil your great holiday mood like late Christmas shopping. Nowadays you can get all of your thoughtful unique gifts online. God Bless Technology and Santa!

Cheers to You and Yours!

It's here.....

The two ladies and no baby are not Halloween gals. We love fall, we do, but not adult Halloween. We hate to dress up and we usually find adults in costumes obnoxious, sorry Halloween lovers.

These broads over here are holiday season FANATICS! Halloween can't come and go soon enough. November 1st is monumental, the beginning of the holiday season! YES! Finally we can start counting down to Christmas. Our Christmas tree goes up before Thanksgiving usually, and the Christmas music starts today! We've heard many an outspoken person say, "you are ruining Christmas, you're too early what about Thanksgiving?" Blah blah blah! Thanksgiving has no music or rad decorations, plus 1 month is not long enough to adequately enjoy all that this season has to offer.

Perks of Christmas Celebrations Starting November 1st:

You are happier
You swear at people less
You are shopping for others instead of yourself like usual
You are more fun to be around
Everyone wants to hang out with you because you smell like pine and peppermint
You get to see your pet dressed in their festive outfits sooner
You feel more generous so you give homeless people money instead of the usual sneer
You get to wear your festive Christmas sweaters more than the average December celebrator
You get to watch Christmas movies twice instead of just once a season
The old bastard brings you more loot because you've done more with the season than most
You are finally able to devote time to choreographing a dance to Oh Come All Ye Faithful


It's the most wonderful time of the year, give yourself more time to enjoy it!
Trust me, you won't regret it!

Falling....

This school year has been rough so far.  This is the first year that I've thought 'I don't know how much longer I can do this job.' It has been hard to get back into the swing of things, especially when my class is less than ideal. Some years I have felt so fortunate to have the job I have: I have the opportunity to influence kids for the better, they are the perfect examples of innocence, they are kind and love without terms. I have been struggling to find those moments of gratitude this year.

As the seasons have slowly been changing from summer to fall I have been so aware of the beauty that comes with a new season. Fall is my favorite season and this year it couldn't have come at a better time. I have needed a pick-me-up and that is what this beautiful season has given me. With the mountains so close I decided that this fall I would spend more time in higher elevations where the air is cool and the colors are enveloping. I've wanted to escape the monotonous life I lead in the city and experience new things amongst the trees where clocks don't exist. Hike after hike after hike has helped provide me with a grateful heart and a contentment that is usually suffocated with worry and fear. By nature I am a worrier, I feel like I am rarely content, I am almost always concerned or anxious about something. Being in the mountains encircled by God's creations has been so liberating, it has brought me perspective that usually feels out of my reach. God knew what he was doing when he created this earth, what we would need and when we would need it. This year as I've struggled to find gratitude and joy in my job I've been fortunate enough to find it elsewhere...

in the miracle that is fall.

Birthday Boy

September 20, 1999 – Spending the evening getting Seth’s Birthday card and present ready. Sitting in my sister’s bedroom surrounded by American Dolls and flowered wallpaper a smile spreads across my face because I have a brilliant idea. His favorite song at the moment is “All-Star” by Smash Mouth. So I decide to make a tape-recording of the song playing over and over again. That way, he won’t have to rewind the tape as often.  He told me just the other day that he could listen to that song forever. Well here I am making his dreams come true. 

Waiting for the song to record, I dump my markers out on the floor, fold a blank paper in half and begin block-lettering ‘Happy Birthday Seth!’ in my best 3-D letters. I know I’m a horrific artist, but go ahead and draw a giant cake anyway. At this point we’re really into homemade cards as opposed to store-bought – they’re much more personal and we’re cheap.

The next day as the Birthday Boy opens my present his blue-grey eyes light up as he exclaims, “Hey! All-Star!” He looks up at me with that signature-dimpled smile and I know I nailed it.

September 21, 2012 – My alarm goes off at 6:20am as I make the slow ascent back to consciousness. Recognizing the tune coming from my radio while I float somewhere between asleep and awake. Thoughts and memories start to connect as my eyes flutter open and realize, “All-Star” by Smash Mouth is playing.

I roll over and smile. Happy Birthday, boy. I love you. 

Ostrich Pillow

Our pals Neil and Mike, who are discoverers of all things weird, e-mailed us this little tender mercy the other day and I will be forever grateful.

It is called the ostrich pillow and is supposed to produce unbelievable power naps. I can't imagine walking into someone's office and seeing this. You can't tell me that after pulling this off your head you're going to look normal.


God Bless America.... or wherever this was made.