It was back to school day after the Winter Break. No snow, a couple colds, a spread out Christmas adventure. We read bundles for the Oregon Battle of the Books. My daughter is on a team called the Savage Watermelon Eating Bunny. There are three members, so each was assigned...
My daughter is the youngest of five and her nieces and nephews are in their thirties except one who is mid twenties. So my kids cousins are older than their aunt, my sister. Which caused my daughter some confusion. One of the cousin's had a blessing for her baby today...
It's been a year since my grandmother died. She went to the hospital on New Years Day, things looked bleak, better, okay, and then it was time. I flew down on Thursday, my cousin picked me up. I ended up crashing at his place in Manhattan Beach after we stopped...
I have been sick this week. Barely get out of bed kinda sick a couple days. I was feeling better when I woke up today, then took the trash out and my head swelled with mucous almost immediately. I still got some time to fully mend, but I am feeling...
My daughter wanted to take dance lessons when she was two. She started ballet at a city park shortly after turning three, which was the youngest they would take students. When we moved to Oregon, we found a dance teacher that was awesome and she added tap to the ballet....
I signed up to do an online program at a friend's wedding. I have struggled with academia as an institution since college and my plan was to make a mockery of this program by doing it in six months. Then I got annoyed with it and stopped working on it...
This is my gratitude journal, which was inspired by my friend Sherry and is about finding and sharing one blessing everyday.
I have thought about copying my friend Sherry God's Winks blog for a few years now. And I made lots of excuses about it. But here I am finally getting started. On Christmas we went to the movies and my son wanted to see SpiderMan Enter the SpiderVerse. My daughter...