"I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string." L.M. Montgomery
The lighting is bad, because I took these at night. . .but the desire to do so hit me, so I went with it. Our walls are still frightfully barren, but things are starting to shape up. As you will see from the captions, this was a "group" effort. Even if some of the ladies …
Continue reading It’s beginning to look a lot like home.
So the first official week of school has come to a close. In fact, the first official Saturday after the first official week of school has very nearly come to a close. . .and we all survived--even thrived this week. The kids LOVE--let me repeat L.O.V.E.--their new schools. No tears. No missing of Lamkin or …
Continue reading Not so bad despite the fact that I was in it
Sometime last year, through another blogger's suggestion, I began reading The Nie Nie Dialogues. In short, it was the cute blog of a young mother--four babies--handsome husband--beautiful life. You can go there to find and read the details of how in the course of a few short seconds one afternoon a year ago, their lives …
1. My nose is only marginally stopped up. Hallelujah!!!! 2. My ankle is only marginally swollen. Hallelujah!!! 3. I am friends with the Goddess of How to Teach Dyslexia class, and she allowed my germy self into her home today--AND fed me lunch--AND gave me A BOATLOAD of stuff to use in my class and …
My friend Sarah had this on her blog today. Rather than just link to her, I decided to put it here for you. You need to watch this if you've not seen it.
The test results for Rita have come back and been read. She does NOT have a tumor at all. She DOES have a torn retina and some blindness caused by it. Normally that would just sound awful. . .and it is. . .but it's so much better than a brain tumor that a lot of …
Artwork courtesy of Thad. ********Had to change the caption from "The Policeman" to "The Cop" per the Artist's request.******** Is it just me, or does the Super Hero look a little like Voldemort? Thad has never SEEN that particular Harry Potter movie, so he has no point of reference, but if I were the Bad …
