I’ve told Kennedy every year that I wish her birthday were a week later than it is.  Then I’d be able to plan better because we’d be out of school.  This year, she wants to have a cookout with a couple of friends/cousins over to play in the water and “fry” wieners.  So, save June […]

From roughly late February to mid-May every year, a fascinating ritual plays out on the rolling prairies of Northwestern Oklahoma. About an hour before sunrise each morning during this period, male Lesser Prairie Chickens gather at the same “Gobbling Grounds” they and their ancestors have frequented for hundreds of years, prepared to engage in […]

Kennedy and I watched the movie Hotel for Dogs tonight (Walt is out of town), and she teared up a number of times.  I’ve never seen her cry at movies before.  It was a new experience to watch her have such empathy for characters so unlike herself, and yet she still felt very sad at […]

So, I did.  One of her bottom teeth has been flopping around forever, but Kennedy refused to let me pull it.  (On a side note, who loses 4 teeth on the bottom before losing any of the top?  She looks like a jack o’lantern; 2 permanent teeth in the middle, flanked by two gaps on […]

I put on a long black skirt today for school.  Kennedy said, “Where did you get those funny looking pants?”  I said, “Dear, that is what is called a skirt.”

Kennedy had her Spring Moo-sical Extravaganza on Tuesday of this week.  Her part?  To dress like a cow and then put a chicken head band on and deliver some lines all by herself.  She danced only the cow part, though.  They have been practicing for a couple of months and I was a little wary […]