Shotsnaps

  Right after the shower, while I was making something for supper, I looked out the window and saw some of my favorite people sitting in the...

Mallory was just about six months old the weekend of Annika's shower, so right before the girls left (truly, they were heading out the d...

  On the first day of June, this lovely Sugarplum Nut Berry turned 16. It seemed so strange at the time, but what's stranger yet is that...

I don't know why we waited until the first week of June to have Aidan's birthday supper and dessert, but we did. (Probably because h...

  When each of the older three girls turned 16, Grandma took them to the mall for a ritual that involved picking out pretty earrings and get...

Titi, Deirdre, and Caleb's choir had a concert.  We went and listened to beautiful singing! We walked in and saw some Terry cousins! I p...

  Maybe someday I'll be able to blog again without sadness rising. Maybe once I get over the hump of the past and into the present, and ...

  October of 2023 began scrawling a line of demarcation, and May of 2024 finished it off with a flourish. May-- the month of Mildred's m...