Tagged: goodthings

After doing the Swedish style thing for 10 years, my sister and her significant other, Tom, tied the knot at the end of last month. I’m so glad I was able to be there and to be a part of the festivities. Congratulations, my beeg leetle seester! To Love and Cherish It’s a Nice Day for a Navy Wedding: Rachel, Sarah, Bryce, Tom Why My Mom Hates Photo Shoots He Cleans Up Nice, Doesn’t He? Lizardmom in Grandma Mode with Bryce and Rachel *** Fine & Flowering Birthday Wishes to beziigebij and a Basket of Belated Ones to gissa!

The only thing brighter than pumpkins is the smiles on the faces of your children as they are each choosing the biggest and best one in the patch for their very own. I wonder why no one has ever investigated the pumpkin as an alternate source of light? They make the day shine brighter by their very existence! Looking for the Great Pumpkin

I can feel summer slip-sliding away, even though the days are still long and warm and full of flowers. Every day is filled with things to do and time to do them; the sudden realization that the kids start school in 3 days comes as a shock. Yesterday we filled the house with good friends, lots of laughing, running, tumbling children, bright red crayfish and smiling moon lamps on the porch. A day of cleaning early, and then relaxing and waiting, anticipation mounting before the party start time, culminating in a very fun evening, and a long slow day today...

It’s awfully hard to carpe diem when the diem keeps zooming past your head with a loud crackling laugh and disappearing into the past behind you. How did it get to be nearly the end of the week so fast? It seems to me that if your week is filled with good things, it speeds up and jumps forward and springs ahead in lighthearted leaps and bounds. If your week is filled with sorrowful things, with sad and salty sensations or cold ones that make you huddle under covers, shivering compulsively and swearing, then time leans up against the wall,...