Meet my family. Since I’ll be blogging about them, you might as well meet them. They are my favorite people.
C.K., my husband
He is from the deep South. But at the intersection of my Long Island fabulousness and his Southern uppityness is love. He is super talented. Check out his work here and here and here.
Likes: Hendrick’s Gin, his Xbox, drawing, music that you make with wires
Dislikes: not having time to draw, my nagging, people forgetting the punctuation in his name
Favorite Movie: Jaws
Jackson, my son
Likes: PB&J sandwiches, Legos, dancing in the kitchen
Dislikes: when toys are put back in the wrong place, not getting to eat multiple PB&J sandwiches in one day
Favorite Band: Imagine Dragons & “Kaylor Six” (Taylor Swift)
Favorite Book: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Darcy, my daughter
Likes: Ripping paper, bananas, our parrot Misha, bath time, looking fierce in her headbands
Dislikes: sleep training, poop diapers, dresses, wearing anything on her feet
Spirit Animal: Dragon
Favorite Song: “All About that Bass” by Meghan Trainor
Thatcher, my pug
Likes: barking at harmless neighbors, eating her own poops, taking naps, cuddling
Dislikes: playing dress up, being left alone
Long-term Goal: dominate all other dogs on the block
Short-term Goal: get food from the baby
Misha, C.K.’s parrot (a.k.a. the bane of my existence)
Likes: C.K., sitting on the laundry pile, fresh fruit, his enormous eyesore of a cage, seeds, cheese
Dislikes: having an anxiety disorder, me, when the pug barks, when he doesn’t get cheese
Goal: sit on C.K.’s shoulder ALL THE TIME
Dr. Mags, my sister
She moved to Austin and became the caboose on the Sample family crazy train. We love her to pieces.
Likes: sleeping in, Austin food trucks, long walks in the park (<—she really does like to walk in the park)
Dislikes: studying for the boards, not sleeping in
Favorite Book Series: Harry Potter
“Desert Island” Author: C.S. Lewis (<–She made me add this.)
Curt, my dad
He retired from engineering just in time to help with the arrival of Darcy. He called himself “the Doula.”
Likes: Movies starring Dwayne Johnson, Scuba diving, doing favors for everyone, mowing the lawn, good scotch
Dislikes: Traffic, punctuation
Marian, my mom
She’s a fourth grade teacher who gets a manicure every Friday without fail and keeps an impeccably neat house.
Likes: Dominating in board games, her grandchildren, buying clothes, doing the laundry
Dislikes: any type of food that’s not Italian, a messy house, my unwillingness to iron any shirts
Cocktail of Choice: Cosmopolitan (She may not have invented it but if you ask her, she perfected it.)