Our Trip To Mass

Kelsey and I had a nice trip to Massachusetts last week. I unfortunately and predictably I didn't take any pictures until the last leg. We left on Friday the 26th and headed down to Katie's to spend Friday night and Saturday with Katie and Emily in Marblehead. Friday afternoon we ventured out in the rain and went to Whole Foods. They have the best salad bar ever and it made for a great dinner!

Saturday morning I caught up with an old friend from high school, Steph Doiron and we had breakfast. Then I headed to Reece's baby shower and got to see some of my favorite ladies from the WV.

Sunday Kelsey and I packed up and headed down to JP to stay with my beloved friend Ashley and her daughter Temple and fiance Finn. We had a nice time. It was so nice to be back in JP and I lovede walking around the pond. Ash made a really yummy dinner too. I was so impressed with Miss Kelsey as well.. she fell asleep listening to ash and I chit chatting.. I think because she couldn't see me.

Monday we drove into Boston and met up with Shelagh. We had a great day in Boston. Walking through the Common, shopping in Down Town Crossing. And we discovered the coolest restaurant. We knew we'd both heard of it.. But I just got in the mood to venture to China Town and have Dim Sum for the first time. China Pearl is a restraunt in the heart of China Town on the 2nd floor. We definitely had some challenges with the language barrier, but we made it through ok. You sit at your table and waitstaff push carts through the restaurant and stop at each table asking them if they want anything off their cart. It was a little bit challenging figuring out exactly what they had and most of the dishes had these tiny little shrimp, which kelsey shouldn't eat yet. It was really good! and SO cheap. We had 6 different plates of food and there's a lot of food on each one and the whole bill was $20. What a find!

We then all drove up to Chelmsford and stayed at Shea's house. It was a fun sleepover and Kelsey slept awesome.

It was a great trip and I LOVE the fact that I got to see 5 of my girlfriends!!!! How great is that~!

Gotta start somewhere right?

Welcome to my blog. This is my very first post, so please bare with me as I attempt to make a go of this. I must admit... I've been holding out on joing the "blogosphere". I figured, "what do I need a blog for, everyone already has one, so at one point in time do they become obsolete?", but then I started to look at it differently and started realizing what a fun way to say what I want to say, show pictures of my work and my family and whoever wants to read it can... sign me up.

I left my job in December of 2007 to be home with my baby. Since then I have been piecing it together. My new tagline = "Piecing it together through a hodge podge of projects". I think that pretty much sums it up. In march I opened my very own shop on etsy - whimsidoodle.etsy.com. I've really been enjoying finding my creative side again.

Etsy is a fabulous community filled with amazing artists and more importantly very nice, caring and helpful people. Soon after I joined etsy I stumbled across the MaineTeam. A group of Etsy members who happen to all live in Maine and thought it would be great if they banded together and help promote one another. Check out the MaineTeam blog!

I should probably take this opportunity to introduce myself... everyone looks the best on their wedding day, so naturally........My name is Jennifer Payson. I am married to a wonderful husband and father, Jeff. We have two girls at home - my step-daughter Julia and our baby Kelsey (I can't believe she will be a year in July already!) Jeff is a phys ed and health teacher for k-8. Julia is a vivacious first grader and a phenomenal reader and miss kelsey is crawling all over the place these days. How fast it goes by!

Until next time... (it just feels weird not signing off)