Mulligan Street

Happy Holidays!!! Here we are on our annual visit to Santa at Tyson's Corner Mall (the real one is there, trust me--we've sat on his lap 24 out of the last 25 years). This year, only the boys could join us, but tradition is tradition! Santa is holding a box of home-made cookies we brought him (hey, we've known him 25 years!). Afterward, we headed to Coastal Flats for our annual post-Santa meal, where our younger daughter joined us (the older one lives out of town and would

We didn’t intend to do this; we just wanted to meet one. Now we have four—but only for a time. I posted before about losing two elderly cats in the last three years or so, and about my sweet Charlie having cancer. For a cat who was given a couple of weeks, he’s doing remarkably well so far, thanks to a weekly dose of chemo—but he’s on borrowed time. That will leave our 13 year-old, Daisy, alone. She was very closely bonded to Charlie and the two we lost, especially Kelli,

Hi. I'm Susan. My husband Len and I are the proud parents of four often amazing kids--all adopted. We also have a houseful of rescue cats and dogs (plus three charming goldfish rescued from the feeder tank). This is the second marriage for both of us. I love rehabbing furniture and fixing things. A couple of days after somebody t-boned our car and totaled it, the best deal we found was the same year, same model, same color ... Our lives are all about second chances. A fe