thank your trash collector this week

Since the grandparents were so generous (something I’ll explain with pictures later tonight), we will be putting a 6 pack of cokes out for the trash collectors tomorrow. They’ll be working double shifts all week and collecting enough for a large asteroid. Thank your trash collectors this week.

mombie

I still have to wrap for two of the children. I’ve been holding Evan for 45 minutes now. In my arms he sleeps happily, but if I put him down, he screams. I am getting fuzzy and my back is aching. I dropped the white ribbon in the litterbox, so all the gifts have red […]

Dear honking drivers,

Everyone around you wants to arrive at their destination safely. Everyone is doing their best. Honking your horns because traffic is slow will not make traffic go faster. It might startle someone and cause a wreck that traps everyone here for hours, but it won’t make traffic go faster. Lay off the horns. Turn your […]

I don’t do well in public.

I can count on one hand the number of times I have been in the mall this year. Yesterday was one of those times. In the few spare minutes before I had to pick Sarah and her friend up from the movies, I rushed in to visit a store that has captured Sarah’s attention. While […]

Uncle Danny & Aunt Lucy are funny

The D.C. aunt and uncle sent the children gifts and each has a funny pin on the package. It was unnecessary to also add labels, because the pins made it very obvious which gift is for which child. Can you tell which pin goes to which child? “Can’t sleep…clowns will eat me” “I do whatever […]