Instead of using the tax free weekend to buy the family new wardrobes and laptops like the rest of Knoxville, I just tried to get some of the things on Amy and Noah’s* supply lists. Every year there is one item that makes me crazier than usual. In the past it was erasable red pens. […]
Thank you for making me laugh today Barry. August Happiness Challenge
I blog about the speed at which my fingernails grow, but I neglected to update the status of our hot as Hades house. The a/c man thinks we got hit by lightning that fried our system. It is way too far gone to repair. We need a completely new system. Homeowners agreed to pay the […]
“I’m not a baby, so I can’t have a babysitter.” She’ll have to work that out with the babysitter/grandfather.
The homeowners policy is going to cut the cost of new air conditioning to about one-fourth of what we’ve been quoted. That mountain looks much smaller now. August Happiness Challenge
Last night, just an hour after the bridge collapsed, the radio played “Dirty Water” and followed it up immediately with “Black Water.” btw – The Memphis version of “Dirty Water” makes more sense than the Boston version.
In just one week, three of my children will begin school. Two weeks after that, I’ll have four Knox County students in three different schools. I will have a graduating senior and a kindergartener. Just thinking about it makes me feel dizzy. The number of checks I have to write next week makes me feel […]
This weekend, I made one of my extremely rare visits to church. I don’t want to explain why I left the Baptist church to be a part of the church of John Walton. I went on Sunday because the house was hot, the church was cool and I wanted to peek in on Evan in […]
Rain. Sweet tea. It feels cooler outdoors. Hearing the birds sing. It doesn’t matter if you used up the hot water doing laundry. A cool bath feels good. Nobody steals the covers at night. Nobody wants covers. The children sleep later in the mornings. Everyone piles in the car quickly for errands. Car = a/c. […]
Since my mind is stuck like an old 45 (“hot, hot, hot, hot…”), I need to mention a trip to the store with big red bullseye’s everywhere. Due in no small part to her constant application of it, Sarah needed to buy more deodorant. I stood at the cart and quietly contemplated the other shoppers […]