Tonight the weather was gorgeous. While I was cooking dinner, Kennedy was playing “superhero” in the front yard with our neighbor boy, Caden. He’s about six months older than K. I checked on them periodically, and satisfied that they were playing well together (they don’t always), I also unloaded/loaded the dishwasher. […]

Here is my conversation with Kennedy on the way home from Ash Wednesday mass.
K:  I’m getting into the tub as soon as I get home.
Me:  (actually very surprised because she doesn’t usually ask to bathe)  Really?
K:  Yeah, black is not my favorite color you know.
I guess the ashes didn’t match her outfit.

What a great weekend we had! Walt had been notified that he won a couple of broadcasting awards and the awards banquet was Saturday night in Tulsa. On the way, we stopped through Stroud and celebrated Mom’s 60th birthday and left Kennedy there to play with her cousin Hannah. We stayed at […]

I am not ready for this line of questioning.
K.:  Mom, what does the boy cat do to help the girl cat have kittens?

A couple of weeks ago, Kennedy and I were in a store shopping (somehow most of our stories could begin this way). Anyway, I saw some flowers, and kidding (sort of) I said that she and Daddy could get me some flowers for Valentine’s Day. I didn’t care what kind or how many, […]

Kennedy’s latest saying cracks me up: freak, as in “Freak Out!”
K: That _____ is freaking me out. (In response to something just a teensy bit out of the ordinary.)
K: …because Mom might freak out or something. (In response something so inconsequential I can’t even remember.)
I have no idea where […]

Kennedy has always said when she grows up, she wants to be a cheerleader. She has stuck with this for as long as I can remember. She did have a time where she briefly wanted to be a police office, but she quickly reverted back to the noble profession of cheerleading. I […]