Today, is my blue-eyed Dad’s birthday. He comes around here every once in a while. He has a gift for words, as evidenced by his toast, here and this post here. Most of my great memories of my Dad center around the times he had the courage to say the thing that I needed to [...]
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I had the coolest dream. I was at the lake house, and I was giving my Mom a tour of the place. She kept asking me to take her to the places that I normally bypass … like the attic. It’s a crawl space. So, at her insistence, I took her, and found that my [...]
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Today is a total lunar eclipse, called the Pumpkin Moon, as it turns the moon into a beautiful ball of orange. It is red because, believe it or not, the Earth’s shadow is filled with red light. The red light comes from the rim of Earth itself, which is aglow with sunlight filtering through our [...]
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For 11 years, we’ve used Microsoft Outlook as our family message and organizing center. But, Outlook has one very big limitation. It’s only available on one computer. (Unless you have a “network,” which I did consider…) So, every time my husband wants to schedule an evening event, he has to call me to check the [...]
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I admit it. Actually, I love male babysitters. Boys don’t sit around and talk on the phone, they don’t bury their head in novels, and they don’t grab the remote and watch a movie — about horses. Boy babysitters build scavenger hunts, make duct-tape wallets, make peanut butter milkshakes, and play hide-and-seek with the family [...]
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We got hungry, so we went back to the Amish blueberry patch. But this time, I took my camera so I could show you just how tucked away this place really is: So, now that you know the rules, you can come in here to pick up your bucket to hold your blueberries: And, don’t [...]
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Sending my kids off to school has always been for me, a kind of inner celebration. Now, you know that I do tend to get very sad years and months before I need to be sad. But when the day finally does arrive, I’m pretty satisfied. “You did it kid,
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The driver was swerving to keep from hitting the deer, when the car crashed into a telephone pole, splitting the car in two. All 6 of the high school kids riding in the car lived. My cousin’s son, however, who had been riding in the backseat, was severely injured. He was thrown from the car, [...]
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School hasn’t even started yet, but I’m regretting my decision to do afternoon instead of morning kindergarten. I’m picturing this: He would go to school in the morning with his brothers, then I’d take the little one off to preschool. I’d have two hours,
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