March 2016

vacuuming

So the child was asked to stop flapping around in the kitchen and go vacuum the family room. She was not thrilled, but whatever. I glanced into the family room, and this is what she was using to vacuum. No canister. No suction. Girlfriend!  Hello! THEN she was mad she had to do it over. […]

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five years

 Five years ago p.j. was born. Yesterday was a big, wild party. Five years of you, Beautiful Girl? Life before you is hard to imagine.  Who could have imagined life held YOU? You make everything better, funnier, more interesting, more fun. Happy Birthday, Darling. Love Grandma and Grandpa and Everybody

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hey, march!

 Welcome, honey!  I am so glad to see you. Yesterday I took down the dusty bedroom curtains and threw them in the wash. Then I observed the condition of the window sill and edges of the window panes.  They’re normally behind the curtains and easy to ignore. But they’re also original to the house, been

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