Yesterday we took the boys to the spring game on campus. We spent forty dollars on hot dogs (when she told me the total I nearly fainted), and the boys dusted the pollen-covered benches with the seats of their formerly-clean jeans. They met Riptide, the Pelican mascot, and rubbed his fuzzy beak. There was a…
Category: Holidays and Celebrations
I couldn’t stay another day longer
Jesus said Mother I couldn’t stay another day longer Flies right by me and leaves a kiss upon her face While the angels are singin’ his praises in a blaze of glory Mary stays behind and starts cleaning up the place. Patty Griffin always soothes the soul. After a wonderful Thanksgiving which will receive its…
November
As my decade blog-a-versary sails by, I feel like I should do some kind of thinkpiece about blogging (now somewhat passé, apparently), and what this means to me, and why I continue to do it for ten years (and counting) while others have dropped off, and this sort of thing. But . . . that’s…
Full Weekend
There are those weekends when I feel that every blessed second was wasted, every opportunity for special family moments missed. This was not one of those weekends! We filled this one up. Saturday I made the meal plan, grocery shopped, made some yellow cupcakes and let the boys decorate them with spider legs and candy eyes that…
Snippets of Summer
To honor Lachlan and Grandfather, we decided to plant a tree in our yard. The boys and I went to a garden center and after much perusing, selected a plum tree, along with a few bushes to plant around it and our willow. The boys were thrilled to observe the singularly novel act of Daddy driving our…