Monsters

I was up late last night because I’ve been putting off processing the rest of my strawberries. I made 9 batches of jam the first day and lost steam. But after almost a week it was time to get the last 2 gallons of strawberries processed and I didn’t manage to do it [...]

Asherism

Asher: “I don’t like this cake mom. It tastes like…macaroni and cheese and old fish.”

Happy Birthday BJay!

On this day 35 years ago Bridger Jay Smith came into the world! What a cute little baby he was at 1 year old! I really wanted to scan in some pictures of the fun ways we have celebrated BJay’s birthday in the past. But my scanner doesn’t work with my computer [...]

20/20

I was looking through some piles of papers looking for an itemized bill from the an optometrist visit last year and I found this notebook that Kraven left at our house two years ago in Lynchburg. Finding things like that feels like opening a portal to the next world. I searched the pages [...]

Awesome

(These last ones I got with blue on the inside)
Anti-glare coating, scratch resistent coating–the works $12.95/pair.
$43.00 total including shipping.
Don’t you wish you wore glasses?
http://zennioptical.com
I’m not getting paid for this. If the glasses are crap when I get them I’ll let you know.

scattered

I’ve had a few things I’ve been thinking about blogging. I just can’t get it together though. I was talking to Paige this morning and I asked her if she thinks people act different around her. (Dumb question, I know) And it got me thinking about why we do act weird around [...]

Some good news

Yesterday I went to the cardiologist. I’ve been putting off that appointment since January. Partly because of different illnesses that have been going through the family, but mostly because I just didn’t want to find out if I had another health issue. The Dr. was a really nice guy–and it was funny [...]

Things I’ve learned about funerals

1. Food! Holy smokes I’ve never seen so much food flow into one household before in my life. Apparantly, there are two kinds of people in the world. The kind who hang back and are afraid to “bother” the mourning family and the kind who show up with arms full of food, [...]

Dear Kraven,
There are so many things I wish today. I wish I could have been humble enough to learn all the hard, sad lessons I’ve learned in the past few days while you were alive. Family relationships are important. Every single one. I know you knew that. You learned it [...]

Let me explain

I think I should explain the poem “I” that I posted because it turns out it was a really bad coupling with the news of my niece’s death. I didn’t plan it that way and I wasn’t in a dark mood when I wrote it. BJay has been talking about how Satan’s greatest [...]