Happy New Year everyone!  This has been quite a year, hasn’t it. My wish this year is that we all enjoy more peace and security in our lives. I hope you all found a way to celebrate the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009. Recliner Man and I went out for an early [...]

[Read more →]

I love the new phone that Recliner Man gave to me. It is an LG EnV2. The only thing that was making me sad about retiring my old phone were all the special ringtones that I had downloaded onto it. All my special people had their own special sounds. I looked into downloading the ringtones [...]

[Read more →]

Life is always throwing lemons at us. It’s an almost daily challenge to navigate our way through this citrus minefield, all the while clinging desperately to the aged pearl of wisdom, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!” I have developed a new recipe for Life Lemonade that seems to work pretty good for me. [...]

[Read more →]

Do you remember me telling you that The Boy wants to grow a beard long enough to braid? It’s getting bushy. He told us that he has learned that beard hair will only grow to a pre-determined length and then stop growing. If you aren’t meant to have a long one there is nothing you [...]

[Read more →]

Remember the plan to open gifts on Sunday? Well, let me tell you what happened. Last night we each opened our one gift for the night. The Boy got a tea kettle. He was pretty excited about this because he really wanted one and he didn’t expect to be getting one. The excitement was just [...]

[Read more →]

My daughter made me a quilt! Isn’t it beautiful? And check out the detail! Kitties! I talked with her on the phone last night and she said something about “cats” and “obsession” but I’ve decided that I didn’t hear any of that. I just heard, “Merry Christmas, Mom. I love you.”

[Read more →]