I love Valentine's Day and I judge anyone, pretty harshly, who says they don't. God we GET it- no one likes Hallmark or diamond commercials or spending $129 on a dozen roses. Where is your imagination though- who dictates that you have to celebrate it the way the commercials say?! You can totally go your …
It all started with a poem for a school project the 13 year old wrote: A mind, however hard it tries, Will always be thoughtful. A mind is reasoned. A mind is considered, A mind is not always heedful, however. Don't you believe that anybody is witting? That anybody is unaware beyond belief? Down, down, …
We'll start with the "this and that." Every year I like having an Amaryllis in the winter/ over Christmas. I prefer the unique varieties (favorite being a pink one I had years ago that I haven't been able to find again) but sometimes I run out of time and just get the common red or …
Continue reading This and That and like, that whole Therapy thing…
So it was a good Christmas and New Year, but busy. Back and forth to the Rio Grande Valley before and after Christmas, house guests for the holiday itself, some sick kids who got better before too much vacation got eaten up by it, a trip to Mexico, a dog who somehow ripped an entire …
...the busy season! And toss a couple of birthdays in the mix too, while we're at it! So real quick blast through this today: Had the youngest's 4th birthday earlier today. I even baked the cake and the husband made homemade beans for the chalupas. Balloons were blown up. The party was from 11am to 1pm then …
Okay, where to start. Maybe Thanksgiving makes sense. We went out of town for Thanksgiving, which was fun- but a definite high point was getting to go to Mexico for an afternoon with my husband and his brother and my sister in law. (brother and sister in law? Husband's brother and wife? How to freaking …
Continue reading Crafts and Mexico Visit and the Garden in December
(Also words that rhyme w/ bundt cake that I wish I had worked into the title somehow: pepper steak, milk snake, heartache, daybreak and disc break.) Forgive your punch-drunk tired blogger over here- I was up with an inexplicably awake toddler almost all night. She wasn't sick (though she had been earlier in the week, …
