Several years ago, as my parents were beginning to clean out their house to downsize to a smaller home in the same town, my dad gave me this picture. It is my dad when he graduated from PMC back in 1959, I believe it was. This is my oldest child last week: You can be [...]
Author: Susan Wheeler Smith
I love Jesus, my family, and dark roast coffee with a bit of sugar and heavy cream. I live on a gorgeous lake in Southwest Virginia. I'm a bit on the sarcastic side with a whole lot of love and encouragement for women in every stage of life. I have a serious addiction to books, kitchen towels, and the Oxford comma. Welcome.
The way I thought it would be. It wasn’t.
You do it, too. You have in your head how it is going to be. How it is going to look. The way it is all going to turn out.And then it doesn't.So you have a choice.Do I whine, pout, stomp my foot in anger? disappointment? frustration? selfishness?Or do I just go with it?I have [...]
Determined to be Different.
It's not that I had a bad childhood. It's not that anything 'happened' that scarred me. I just wasn't a happy kid. I felt disconnected from my parents and my sister. I was rebellious with a capital R.By the Grace of God, I was saved from my destructive tendencies by a God who had a [...]
Some Kind a Day.
Brett - 6th Grade GraduationShawn and AmandaIn the limo...heading to dinner and then to Prom!SarahSarah and Matt...all for show...I totally had to pin the boutonniere on!It was a great day. Brett's graduation in the morning. Lots of errands. Relatives arriving. Thankfully, my two cousins (in their early 20's) arrived just in time to help Sarah [...]
Y’all…I just needed a bloggy break.
UPDATED****Seriously. I DO run spell check and I do read and re-read and I did do all of these things and saved, but Blgger apparently didn't. I hope it's okay now!It is all Trey, all the time here.Trey is The Older Boyfriend.Okay, older than my sweet little baby girl.By Two Years.Somehow, when she was a [...]
Boring? BORING?
It's downright frantic around here! And fun...so much fun!I hope that after the excitement dies down (as if), I'll be posting all about it. So much so...THEN we'll all be bored!
I’m so far behind in blogging…
But I had to put these pics up. Teri came to visit! And Jill got to spend time with her today and I'm picking her up again tomorrow and she's going to hang out with me at the office and wherever else I might end up.Needless to say...we had a blast today!
A very calm update.
So. Not so frantic here. I thought I would be. When I was at 3 hours and counting...I kind of freaked for a moment but then I was totally okay. And it has all come together...once I told my spousal unit to 'please, just do what I say' regarding getting me a straight edge. He [...]
Somewhere between frantic and bored.
I'm sure it's no secret by now that I am one busy girl we are a busy family.Today is Shawn's birthday party, aka The Hottest Day of 2008. It is so stinkin' humid already that I just want to crawl back into bed and stay there.I think I'm over the whole, "it's all about Shawn" [...]
Oh. He is sooooo very lucky that he is the birthday king around here…
Cuz after seeing his math grade sheet and his explanation for his math grade...you know the, "cuz I don't really care" explanation...it was all I could do to hold back from walloping him AND his father that laughed. And, when he went on further to begin to explain to me that there is a difference [...]
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