This is me. Trying to keep this up. Trying to keep everything up…but so, so tired. Christmas used to be my favorite time of year. The magic…the traditions….the family…the excitement everywhere you go. It really is unlike any other time. Something happened at some point in adulthood. I’m not sure when. And I’m not sure […]
This is the only real picture I have from Thanksgiving 2020. It was our 2nd Annual Turkey Bowl. I’ve always wanted to have an Annual something-or-other. So last year…I decide a Turkey Bowl touch football game to be held the day before Thanksgiving was as good-a-thing as any. *** That song…..Back in the Saddle….comes to […]
I’m so all or nothing. And that personality trait is really getting in the way of my productivity these days. Here are some examples: If I don’t have time to clean the whole house…we all might as well live like we are living in a frat house. Dirty dishes? Leave em. We can start using […]
Not long ago I overheard two of my older children talking about my blog. When I started this blog…the kids were all little. And my whole purpose was to have a place where I could share my everyday pictures and stories so that they could read them some day. I had dreams of making this […]
Summer has been some sort of come-back for me. I’ve been gone for a while. Like the kind of gone that happens after something rips your heart out…only you have to keep going gone. I had the pleasure of chatting with a dear friend the other night…and she didn’t even know that what she was […]
During the week of St. Patrick’s Day…I found 3 four-leaf clovers. Like…real ones. So…obviously…I kept them. They have been sitting on top of the chifferobe ever since. I had every intention of pressing them in my favorite, first edition copy of To Kill A Mockingbird…but still they sit. Today…I found one on the floor. Crushed up into […]
This is my mom and Honey. Honey is my mother’s mother. My mom calls her “Mother.” She always has. That’s something that I remember thinking was strange when I was little. Mother. So formal. But now…when I hear her call Honey that…it’s not strange at all. The word…when it comes off of mom’s lips is […]
This was the first picture I took of J. I hadn’t even seen his eyes open yet. She passed him to me just like this…peacefully sleeping…in a diaper and a t-shirt and an infant carrier that was sized for a newborn. And this seemed fitting to me. He was supposed to be a newborn. That’s […]
This past weekend I did something that I never do. I left. It wasn’t too long ago that I sat on the couch one night and told Chad, “I need a plane ticket. I’m going to Clemson.” Technically…I was going to Atlanta. But in my mind… …same thing. My closest Clemson friend lives in Atlanta…and […]
It has occurred to me over the last week…and maybe little by little over the last 8 years that I’d better squeeze every, last, dried up drop out of the younger years. We spend our energy focusing on celebrating every “first” that comes along. We record their first word…like their college acceptance depends on it. We […]