I spent a few days with Audrey while her husband was out of town. All I can say is… thank God I have thick skin. Or, at least, “pretty lines.” I’m thinking that I must get William (just turned 4) and Alexander (just turned 3) together for a little tutorial in [...]

[Read more →]

Dawg and Libragirl both gave me this nifty award.  I love them both so very much (even without the award!).  And today… even more special… it’s Libragirl’s birthday. Head on over and give her a BIG birthday shout-out!
Now it’s my turn to award 7 bloggers whose blogs I, well… love. There are so many of [...]

[Read more →]

My dear, wonderful, fabulously funny friend, Beth at I Should Be Folding Laundry, posed an interesting query yesterday… if you had 4 hours of pretty much everything else in your world completely done (you know, like laundry), what would you do with this time? (OK. I know this is as preposterous as, what [...]

[Read more →]

Yesterday afternoon, I hit the grocery store for a few items. And I mean, just a few because I was in a hurry. I was rather sailing down the the bread aisle when I almost took out an older gentleman who was reaching for a loaf of rye bread. How did I [...]

[Read more →]

While over at C’s blog this morning, I got the most unexpected memory of a delightful animal friend long forgotten.
No.  It’s not a childhood pet.  I could never forget my wonderful childhood companion, my dog Chippy.
It was a Black Cow.
And this memory got me all salivating to find another Black Cow.  Not a cow of [...]

[Read more →]

For me, I have one good way of remembering things. I make lists in my head. These lists can be short, medium or long… usually depending upon the time frame I have to complete the list.
Yesterday, I had a kind-of short list, but a list of things that I had to gather up very [...]

[Read more →]

My Janie is the best. She really is.
You know there’s a “but” in here somewhere, right?
Well, yes, there is…
My Janie is the best. She really is. BUT sometimes she is absent-minded.
Like today.
Janie had an early appointment today that she wasn’t sure how long it would last, so she asked me if I [...]

[Read more →]

I am now a Facebook friend with a beautiful, fun, special woman who I met when she was 4 years old, and had the wonderful pleasure of watching grow up. Birthday parties. Graduation parties. A beautiful bride. Now a Mommy to 3 precious children, and expecting her 4th in February.
On [...]

[Read more →]

Dear Kohler,
I am the grandmother of 7 grandsons.
Count ‘em. 7. Andrew is 5. Jake is 4. William is 3. Alexander is 2. Benjamin is 1. Henry is 12 weeks. And Dylan is 6 weeks.
That’s a lotta… how can I say this delicately… pee.
Yesterday is a wonderful example [...]

[Read more →]

We call Audrey’s oldest son, William, “the sponge.”
William soaks in information like… well, a sponge. He loves all things about space, dinosaurs, trains. He can tell you anything you need to know about Lego Star Wars or Lego Indiana Jones. He loves weather, as in I think he may be a [...]

[Read more →]