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Yep, going back to April for a minute. And I’m sneaking it in late on a Thursday night so it can fly under the radar a little because it is OLD news by now. But I love to keep all this stuff together so here we go. April was that…

I was a big slacker documenting Christmas. Not only here on the blog, but also taking pictures. (My kids would disagree, of course, because they think I always take pictures, but there are so many things I have decided to just document in my mind. Intentionally.) But here are a…

Welp, here we are on the brink of a new year. The sun is setting on the infamous 2020. It seems that many of us have been waiting with bated breath to say goodbye to 2020…good riddance to this roller coaster of a year, right? I agree in some ways…I…

It is interesting to think about March (wasn’t that like 55 years ago??), back in the day when the world was “normal” and no one really had any clue what was going to hit it. Little did we know it was the month the world turned on it’s side and…

Let’s take a minute to go back to February for record’s sake. It seems crazy to me that this was only a couple months ago! But there we were, Claire and some cousins went to watch other cousins compete in the state cheer competition: (They did awesome, so proud of…

I have an incredible niece. Ok, well, I am lucky enough to have a LOT of incredible nieces, but one of them is doing some pretty big things recently like accepting an offer to swim and study at Columbia (!), and putting together a “senior project film premier” evening to…

preface: I am only giving myself thirty minutes to write this post (trying to carve out some time to be here to clear my thoughts before our we all need to get going around here)…so please forgive me if I don’t say everything perfectly (which I never do anyway!)…there is…

Well, today marks the first day of official on-line school here in the desert. Everyone at this moment is nestled in front of their chrome books and laptops (college kids), working hard, trying to figure out this strange new mode of life. Every once in a while I stop in…

Gotta squeeze this little things dealio in before the end of January just for principle’s sake. But first of all, I just have to say it’s my future son-in-law’s birthday today and I love him! Carson, I hope you have the best-ever day with your cutie fiance. She is one…

Ok I’m still trying to come up for breath over here after all those Christmas things mooshed together in the midst of all our family togetherness. Oh boy. I’m so glad for this little part of the Internet where I can come and make some semblance of all the strands…