Almost Wordless Wednesday

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. ~Joseph Addison I amend this to include granddaughters as …

Autumn memories

Just before the death of flowers and before they are buried in snow, there comes a festival season when nature is aglow. ~Author Unknown Well, I may have missed my opportunity for this post since it SNOWED a few days ago! Middle Missouri broke her previous record of .3 inches of snow on November 8th. …

Holiday Tradition!

The Halloween candy is far from finished but now we're racing towards the holidays. My October 31st was a whirlwind of activity with grandbabykin school parties and trick or treating. Why do I subject myself to all this...for the second time around? Simply because they are only little once and I want to soak up …

The end of an era

I'm not going to cry. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. Okay, yes, I cried. Today is the first day of Pre-K for Twix. And, I'd be a liar if I didn't admit this is a bittersweet day for both Entrepreneur and me. She has been with us since the day she was born. We …

Dear Granddaughter…..

In September, we celebrated Peanut's 9th birthday. NINE! It's hard to comprehend it was nine years ago I was promoted to being a Nana. A lot has been packed into those nine years...sometimes it seems like a lifetime ago she was placed in my arms, but at other times, nine years seems to have flown …