I noticed today that I have been complaining that come August...2014...when we return from Radford University after dropping The Wild Boy off for his first semester of his first year of college...I keep complaining that I won't be "an empty-nester."I will share a secret with you. I don't want to be an empty-nester. Yet. Maybe [...]
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Part 1…2014.
I wrote a post this morning. I hated it. It was my typical yakkity-yak, blippity blah, frou-frou crap. *Sorry for using "Crap"...you know I like to use it now and then. A lot. Today is that day.* So anyway. I scrapped the crap post this morning and went on my merry way taking down the [...]
Christmas reflections.
So I might have been a tad depressed in the two weeks or so leading up to Christmas. I really, truly appreciate everyone's support during that time. I suppose it was weird to y'all that I took the death of The Wild Boy's fellow Spartan so hard. I think putting into words for you why, [...]
‘Twas Five Days Before Christmas and all Through the House…
I have a lot to talk about. I will try not to ramble.Too much.I want to say right up front that I have not been depressed this Christmas. I truly have not. But, I just haven't been Christmas-y Susan. Sure, I've been playing music since October and I will continue to play it for a [...]
THE Best *insert anything here* EVER!
Just scrolling through my yahoo emails and noticed a trend. Several subject lines began with..."The BEST (salad, sock people, workouts, weight loss pill, pie recipe, organization tools) EVER!" Several more assured me "The ONLY (recipe, workout, personal plan, husband) you will EVER need! *I made up "husband" but you get the idea*The funny thing is, [...]
If there is cat barf on the Christmas Tree skirt, it must be Wednesday.
I've always had a love/hate relationship with Wednesday. Sure it has a classy nickname, "Hump Day," with an entire commercial dedicated to it. It does signify the middle of the week. If you are a glass-half-full person, that means only two days left in the work week. Or, if you are a glass-half-empty kinda girl [...]
Snow Day #2.
Snow Days. Now that the kids are all grown up...I love them. Let's face it, when you have children Snow Days are Extra Work Days for moms. Snow clothes, hot cocoa, breaking up fights...at least that was the way it was here at Smith Abbey. Whilst in the midst of it, I was not such [...]
It’s not about the tree.
I loved blogging every day in November. I loved the break, for a few days, from blogging. I also missed blogging the last few days. I'm complex like that. It is finally Christmas in the Smith household. How do I know? Because I can't stop stressing about all I have to get done. Shopping...I don't [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
Just a quick good morning and wishing you the happiest of Thanksgiving days. Our house is quiet and still. For ten minutes more. At 9:00, the troops will be roused and the quiet will be broken with teen and twenty-somethings moaning and groaning and grumbling. And I couldn't be more happy to hear it in [...]
Some thoughts on this Thanksgiving Eve.
I stuck around in bed for an extra hour and a half after I woke up this morning. Snug as a bug, thinking about past Holiday Season celebrations. By the way, I am totally cool with referring to the time frame between Halloween and the first week of January as The Holidays or The Holiday [...]
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