My four-year-old son looks like a seven-year-old. He is almost 60 lbs. and is built like a brick outhouse as they used to say in the olden days. (I think I may be keeping it G for the blog but you get the drift). He is a big boy but sometimes still acts like a…
A Day in My Life
“I don’t know how you do it.” This is how my brother and countless other people respond to me when I tell them anything that I do. Sometimes I wonder what they envision I should be doing instead that I wouldn’t have time for the thing that I am telling them. It is about as…
The Turning Point
There comes a time when you begin to think about your life differently than you had in the past. That time has come for me. I began to think about how I feel every day. I was feeling like crap! My energy was low, I couldn’t get up early anymore, started taking naps and I…
Until Death Do Us Part
The other day I was out weeding the garden, and as I looked down at my dirt covered hand, I saw a glimmer of something shiny that caught all of my attention. It was the single 1/4 carat diamond in my engagement ring. The light it gave off made me think of the day I…
The Only Answer to the Unemployment Problem
This weekend I had the opportunity to talk to a couple of my brothers who are looking for work. One is a 60-year-old amputee with an architectural degree and as many years experience as you can have at this age. He found a job through a friend here but after less than a year was…
I Don’t Want Any More Presents
We have been parents for almost twenty years, and yes, I count the day of conception as the start date of the parenting endeavor. So, all told, in a couple of months, twenty years will have gone by, and FAST! When we began this life together, we told each other a few things about what…
I Can’t Read Yet
My husband asked my five-year-old daughter, “What is three plus three?” My daughter replies, “I can’t read yet.”
Everyone is an Affiliate
“We are affiliates.” We hear this day in and day out. What does it even mean? I will tell you what it means to the people who try to use the services of these affiliates. Being an affiliate means you share a name, and you can tell us how we can get to the other…
Word for Wednesday 1
Every family has a bunch of words that were made up as the family, well, lived together in the same house for years and spoke. I like to think of these words as OUR family speak and if you know us, you can speak our language. If you don’t, then you can learn a new…
Excuse Me
The kids were coming back from the bathroom at Church Sunday. Our six-year-old son’s shirt was untucked and super long because, well, I couldn’t find one in his size that morning. That’s another story. So, he proceeded to tuck in his shirt while standing in the pews where we sat. My ten-year-old daughter came back…