Lucky Dorito

One year
12 months
365 days
8760 hours
525,600 minutes
Time moves fast….
except for when someone you love is gone.
I miss you Daddy.

You might remember, last week we played a wee little game about some of our favorite non-cuss words, right? There was a BUNCH of them – 18 in total, sent in by 10 people. It might have been a bit of a daunting task to match up WHO says WHAT because not everyone has even [...]

Or ….. it should be.
I am forever doing something to embarrass myself. That’s obviously not any big revelation because I tell on myself all the time, huh? But, let’s face it: I know I am prone to doing stupid things so sometimes I try to be extra careful to NOT do it. Whatever it might [...]

This is all that’s left.

The girls and I have some ideas for what we’re going to do with these slices of the tree.
But I’m open to suggestions…. got any?
(It’s easy to see just how rotted the tree was in the biggest pieces. Wow.)

For the past many months…. well, actually, YEARS would probably be more accurate, you’ve heard me talk about one of my favorite people in the world – Lena. Remember? She just happens to be my sister also.
We spent the weekend on one of our crazy super-fast shopping marathons at the wholesale jewelry market [...]

I love the big trees shading and surrounding our home. We feel very lucky to live in an older well-established neighborhood because there are some beautiful mature trees all around us. Like this one:

But what happens when a tree this size starts to die and drop things like this smack dab in the middle between [...]

*I’m so glad it’s FRIDAY!*

*It just makes me tingly all over!*

*Are you taking my picture??*

*Ohhhh, I am sooo embarrassed.*

*Great… now she’ll probably blog about it.*
Yep. She probably will.

Dear Mr. Lucky,
It’s hard to believe it’s been FIFTEEN YEARS since we stood in front of our family and friends, in the presence of our Lord, and exchanged our vows of commitment to each other. Seriously…. how did it fly by so fast?
Our marriage has sometimes been a bumpy road, full of potholes and detours. [...]

First off, let me say a big THANK YOU to Stacy for suggesting this weeks game – what a great idea!
We all have *words* that we use when we’re trying to not say a wordy-dirty, right?
It’s funny how the words tend to be *regional* at times, also.
My friend, Qualcoso di Bello from Piacere
says that when [...]