Kennedy!  Every Friday, Kennedy and I have breakfast at the cafeteria together (biscuits and gray).  Last Friday, her principal came by with a stack of papers and said, “Hey, Mom, I thought you’d want to stick around for our morning assembly today.”  I looked at the papers and on the top was a certificate with […]

Before we even made an offer on the little green house, people around town told me to have the septic checked.  We hired a “septic expert” to come out and make sure everything was working okay.  Suspiciously, the owner’s son had never heard anything about sewer trouble, despite many other Lutherites saying things to the […]

On the way home this evening Kennedy and I had this conversation:
K.: Wow! That’s a fancy place. Look at all the lights in that restaurant.
Me: That’s because it’s a lighting store.
K.: Oh, excuse me. (I’m sure that was accompanied by much eye rolling.  It was too dark for me to […]

I stayed home with Kennedy Monday and Tuesday and got sick as well. She is a much better patient than I am. She hardly ever whines and doesn’t complain much at all. I, on the other hand, moan every so often, usually after a boat of coughing, that I AM GOING TO […]

Well, I think number four anyway. We took Kennedy to Urgent Care for a painful ear infection about three weeks ago, and right after getting off the antibiotics, she developed a terrible, chesty cough. I had hoped it wouldn’t turn into another ear infection, but last week when she started getting in trouble […]

The Saturday after Christmas was the day we all chose to gather in Stroud.  Mom made a traditional Christmas feast, ham, etc.  It was SO good.  The kids were too excited to eat much, but the adults more than made up for it.  My favorite dessert was one that tastes like pecan pie, but it’s […]