Three years ago, I wrote a love letter to my daughter. A love letter to my youngest child. Miss Sunshine. My only girl, who was just entering into the teenage years. Interestingly, the love letter that sat in the recesses of this blog, and had been seen by around 100 pairs of eyes before 2019, [...]
It happened again! You may be asking what happened again. Well, I blinked my eyes and another one of my children crossed the threshold into adulthood. Yep! On August 17th, son #2 (Mr D) turned 18. I wrote about this second blessing of mine when he turned 15 (you can read that post here). I [...]
Nicknames. I've been thinking about nicknames lately. Anybody else do that? Just ponder nicknames? What they are? How they've come about? Anybody? Anybody? My husband gives out lots of nicknames. To people, to animals, sometimes to objects (this is where I practice the art of mind reading when he asks where said object is [...]
A Teen Driver. The oldest is about to venture out on his own. Driving without me or his father in the seat next to him. This is happening Sunday, to be exact. If you've been following along with me for a while you may remember that he lived through and fully recovered from a traumatic [...]
I had a plan to talk about this at the beginning of the month. I was waiting to work through the process that this "almost" fire generated. Then I ended up needing to work through some other household stuff, stuff that I am still working through, stuff that will probably come up in later posts. [...]
