Alternately Titled: Let the blood-letting begin.This is Jem.This is Jem and his mom’s messy desk.This is Jem and his mom’s messy desk and the mouth full of metal that he got just yesterday.(Thus the subtitle of today’s post. Hey, we didn’t need that money anyway! But, apparently, our orthodontist does!)Jem has a shark tooth—has had it for well over … [Read more...]
[Almost] Wordless Wednesday
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Bip it, Bop it, Melt my Heart
So the other day I said that George has a working vocabulary of about five words. Immediately after posting that, I realized that, no, he actually says a whole lot more.I just don't understand most of it.However, for the sake of posterity and accuracy and being--gosh darn it, let's be honest here--anal, I have to share with you some more cute … [Read more...]
Pretty Happy Funny Real
The Sometimes-My-Teenaged-Son-Makes-Me-Cry EditionAlternately Titled: Independence Day {pretty}My son rode his bike to WalMart yesterday and when he returned, he brought me a treat.Pretty, no?I admired it for approximately 3.5 minutes and then moved on to other senses.{happy}My son (and his brother) have been keeping us very busy this summer. For … [Read more...]
The Penderwicks at Point Mouette (An Update)
Done!Swoon.The Penderwicks at Point Mouette was every bit as wonderful as I’d hoped…and I’d been hoping for a very long time. I put in a library request for this book when I first heard it was being published—literally, about a year ago—and when I received the book—FINALLY!—from the library, it was so new that some of the pages hadn’t been cut … [Read more...]
Just a Small Town Girl
Some think that life is like a box of chocolates. It’s not a bad metaphor, really, but as for me…I see it more as a great big puzzle.It’s our job to make the pieces fit together—to make sense of them, to rearrange them constantly—and to persevere until we see the big picture, which, depending on the day and the light and our faith......may not be … [Read more...]
Pathetic and Desperate
Yep, that’s me.And were it not for the occasional comment like hers—and yours—I would probably stop seeking proof that you were out there altogether.No, I wouldn’t.Yes, I would.No, I wouldn’t.Okay, fine. You have probably figured out by now that with this blog, anyway, there are no guarantees. I do apologize for last night’s pathetic, desperate, … [Read more...]
Doing One’s Duty to God and Country
Here’s the thing.The brothers are away, see—both of them. The brothers are away at Scout camp for the entire week, and my mom misses them like crazy.Going home to see her family in North Dakota helped…a bit.Taking me and my sisters to the pool while there? Another nice distraction, yeah, though I know she felt “incomplete” as a family and that her … [Read more...]
My Tiny Dancer
Part II(Read Part I here.)We only have one daughter who’s in dance right now—my middle girl, my littlest girl.“Little” as in petite itself.Petite as petite can be.Now then. What with all my blogging about baseball and soccer—all the good-natured complaining about simultaneous games and chilly venues—I haven’t said much about Felicity’s sport. I … [Read more...]
On Being One (Part II)
So yeah. I’m definitely more comfortable with crawling at this point.Hey, everybody’s different! Mom says that my brother Joe was walking by his first birthday and so was my sister Cate.The rest of my siblings, though? Slackers all, like me!In fact, my sister Felicity had a nickname. Mom and Dad called her “the paperweight” because wherever you sat … [Read more...]
