I wrote my first blog post on December 27, 2006, seventeen years ago. Over those years, A LOT has happened in my life. My mother died three days after that post, I got divotced and remarried, my girls have graduated from high school, college, and grown to be working adults. Offspring No. 2 has married and given us two grandsons, the pandemic has happened, I retired and then unretired, just to name a few of those things. Also over all…
Here is what my June looked like in a picture a day… June is a few hours from being over. We are now halfway through 2017. And we are also closer to Christmas 2017 than Christmas 2016. You have 177 shopping days. The word that comes to mind when I look back at my daily photos from the month and I think about all the experiences that June brought with it is growth. The biggest event during this month is…
Today is my 55th birthday. Exactly ten years ago, on a whim, I decided to start writing a blog. At that point I had no idea why and was fairly sure that no one really wanted to read what I was writing. But, I did it. The title perfectly summed up what I wrote about, all the things that happened in my day. I was faithful to the process for quite awhile. And then I became unfaithful. And then faithful…
Yesterday was my 54th birthday. In the last week we have celebrated both of my daughters’ birthdays and Christmas. It goes without saying that this is a busy time in our family! Interestingly, all of the men in our family–husband, ex-husband, daughter’s boyfriend–all have summer birthdays, an they are months apart rather than days. Despite being packed in around Christmas, I have always made a point to keep my girls’ birthdays separate from Christmas and separate from each other. Everyone…
Christmas has come and gone. In Texas, at least for us, it was the calm before the storm. The Dallas area had devastating tornadoes last night, one of which contained 200 mph winds, that left eleven people dead and massive property damage that has not yet been fully assessed. Though the tornado sirens sounded for us and we had a plan for taking shelter, we never moved from our positions in front of the TV where we were watching the…
“Birthday Indulgence” Today I could either get cozy or indulgence, but they didn’t both happen at the same time. I decided to go with just indulgence because it made for a much better picture! Having a birthday so close to Christmas, like anything, has advantages and disadvantages. This year the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages because I got a new lens on both occasions – not a joint gift, but actually two lenses! I freely admit that this is a…
“Birthday Bubbles” I had a nice birthday day – church followed by lunch with my favorite friends, a little bit of time blowing bubbles in the afternoon sun, and Latin American cuisine for dinner with my family.
Today was day two of our marathon week of birthdays – four in six days if you count Jesus. My baby turned twenty two today. Where has the time gone? Both the birthday girl and her sister had to work all day so our celebration consisted of dinner in Fort Worth at Yucatan Taco. (I am including the name of the restaurant because neither Brooke or me could remember where we went last year for Erin’s birthday. Though I…
“Naughty? Maybe. 25? Definitely.” These two are ready to party. The “naughty” one celebrated her 25th birthday today. She and her “nice” sister spent the day shopping and eating (and maybe drinking a little, too.) All that was followed by a family dinner and sharing of gifts tonight. Neither one of them was really dressed for a portrait. The naughty one had on ridiculously high heels making her way taller than her sister and thus making it impossible, in terrible…
“Shades” Happy National Sunglasses Day! I have said it here before – I am not a fan of hats and sunglasses because they make me claustrophobic. The only sunglasses I will where at all are the amber tinted ones and they seem to be the most difficult to find. And hats are even more elusive, at least hats that don’t look ridiculously dorky. I will wear baseball caps, but they don’t do much to keep the sun off of my…