Thankful for another family vacay

I've been more or less MIA for the past few weeks. One week getting ready for our family vacation and then a week at our destination....Cancun, Mexico. With Entrepreneur's cancer, each family get-together represents another milestone and a grateful heart. Our last family vacay was December of 2018 and we commemorated it with a family …

December Photo Challenge: Jingle All the Way

It's the last day of December and the last day of 2019! PJ's prompt for our photo challenge is, appropriately, Jingle All the Way. December was a strange month weather-wise. Most of the month was mild with temps in the 50s and 60s. In fact, Christmas was almost 70F here in middle Missouri. However, a …

Awwww Monday: Santa’s elves

Every year I try and take some pics of the grand girls in Santa hats during the Christmas season. You would think this project would get easier as they get older (more cooperative?).....but that is not necessarily the case. This year I made a tactical error and tried to do this after an afternoon of …

Twix Lost Her First Tooth!

How close to the moon does the tooth fairy soar with her arms so full she can hold no more? Could the tiny bright stars that hang in the sky be the teeth that fell down as she flew by?  ― Denise Barry , What Does the Tooth Fairy Do with Our Teeth? Playing along …

November Photo Challenge: Whatcha eatin’?

Well, I'm late to the party this month. If you are in the US, I hope you had a wonderfully blessed Thanksgiving. It seemed like I ate my way through November, but forgot to take photos for much of it. But, here's what I did manage to get for PJ's theme this month....Whatcha Eatin'? Whatcha Eatin'? …

Quieter and slightly subdued

I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip. ~Henry Rollins October has put away …

Scrunching and Bunching

Grandmothers are just antique little girls. ~Author unknown Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies. ~Author unknown Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. ~Doug Larson I don’t intentionally spoil my grandkids. It’s just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left. ~Gene Perret When Twix asked …