Lucky Dorito

When I was a little girl, I’d get bored sitting in school. I would doodle and draw, I would color in the e’s and o’s in my book, I would chew my fingernails, whatever it took to entertain myself. I can’t remember exactly what age I was, sometime in grade school – when I discovered [...]

Beebo and I made a little shopping trip to Walmart this weekend – both of us just anxious to be out of the house for while, after we’d been here, wearing a mask and lysol-ing everything for a few days. I had my camera in my purse (as usual) and just had to get a [...]

I am sixteen months younger than my sister Lena.
That means, during our growing up years … I drove her CrAzY!!

I was the classic youngest child.

Always getting into her stuff.

Always trying to be her boss.

She used to put me in my place by simply ignoring me.
She’d say, “I think I hear a mouse talking….” when I’d [...]

This has been floating around on Facebook for a few days…. have you seen it? It is beyond precious….

We’re all being extra careful to NOT swap germs (or air) with our 9 year old Luby…. our resident swine flu girl.
According to our pediatrician, since it is too early for the seasonal flu, the CDC is recommending that all patients that test positive for the flu – to automatically assume it is the swine [...]

Some days I feel like I am just muddling through…. just hoping to get through it, you know? And then all of a sudden, something happens to make me realize how totally lame and selfish that is.
Why am I short-changing myself like that?
I have so much to be thankful for in this life.
How dare I [...]

My sister, Lena, and I went to the wholesale jewelry market a few weekends ago and somehow, I made it home with this:

It’s a heavy hand-carved teak basket that Lena forced me to buy. (Really, she did.)  (What? You don’t believe me?) I have no earthly idea what I’ll do with it. Right now it’s [...]

For several weeks, we’ve been playing a little game here in blogland. It’s always a *Name that…. whatever* the assignment for that week might be, where YOU send in photos and I post them, along with a list of who sent them. The object is to match the photo up with the blogger that sent [...]

Yesterday I read my sweet friend Meg’s post and thought *Ranger Ruth* was just adorable. I even followed the link to see about ordering one because I just knew my girls would LOVE it for when we travel. Just a short while later, I saw my youngest daughters’ homemade version of herself laying on her [...]

A repost:   It seems fitting today, although I wrote it nearly 18 months ago.
sadness consumes a soul

when you feel as if you’ve lost something – something that wasn’t yours to lose in the first place
sadness overwhelms a life
but you didn’t really lose it, it’s just different now
and it NEEDS to be different, of this [...]