It’s raining and awesome in the upper Midwest today and I’m loving it. Oatmeal for breakfast, piping hot coffee sitting keyboard side, wind howling the beautiful fall leaves by my window…I hope the colors last in the trees for a couple more weeks, but it’s gotta be said…I’ll take the rain! I’ll also take this little curly-headed cutie in a…
As a kid, I was a little short. Not like I couldn’t go on most of the rides at Valleyfair kind of short, but more of your average-Joe, vertically-challenged variety. Which wasn’t really that big of a deal to me until it was time to go to Middle School. A whole huge new school of two buildings and a virtual…
It’s Monday already. As a basic rule of human decency, I loathe Mondays. Well, I guess I used to loathe Mondays. Having to lurch out of bed at the first beep of the alarm and prep yourself for the 5-daily grinds to follow. Dressing like a person. Taking a shower daily…ugh, actually doing something with my hair. It takes real…
I’ve used this poem before in a baby post, years ago, but it somehow seemed to just ring right with me this morning again. *** Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe,— Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew. “Where are you going, and what do you wish?†The old…
It’s…like…September!? When did that happen? Dang…time goes so fast. I’ve been trying to limit my social media time lately in order to maximize, well, life time so I missed all the back to school photos on Facebook yesterday…but the one text I received of my nephew on the first day of kindergarten…!!! 🙂 Other people’s kids… And little Miss Callan…