Month: January 2012

When asked by Uncle Tony if he’d used his Christmas present yet (a very cool headlamp), Ricky responded, “I haven’t.  Sorry.  But there is another Christmas present that I got that I’d like to show you …” It was such a perfect segue into showing Uncle Tony how good he’d gotten at one of his […]

During one of our random dinnertime conversations this week, Ricky said, ” [something] is as bald as an eagle!” I just casually mentioned that bald eagles aren’t actually bald but really just have white feathers on their head so we call them bald.  The joke then became that we call Poppy bald because his head […]

Preface:  We own three indoor cats.  An orange tabby named Hunter, a gray tabby/siamese mix named Maggie, and a black and white one named Linus.  That might help you follow this story better. This morning Rusty was hanging with me in the bathroom while I was getting ready.  One of our cats meowed at the […]

RICKY – He is currently trying to heal from a couple of pretty bad ear infections.  (Someday I’m hoping my children will tell me their ears hurt before they get so bad.)  He gets great grades at school – their scale is a 1 to 4 scale with 4 being best and Ricky is pulling […]

This evening, Billy mentioned that the dad of one of the boys in his preschool class had died.  We already knew this.  The family goes to church with us and the whole ordeal was very sad.  Kevin and I talked with Billy for a few minutes about it and how my dad has died, too.  […]