Reflections from a Smith Mountain Lake Porch. - part 5. Disclaimer: I am not writing this on the porch. Although it is sunny and the wind has finally died down, it is 30 degrees out there. Brr. The kids all headed out around 10:30 this morning, thirty minutes ago. Russell and I stood in the [...]
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November 19 and let’s all just calm down
Not an order...a suggestion. Since I've been all up in my own head the first 2.5 weeks of November, I'm leading the charge in calming down. Having said that, I was super duper grumpy this morning. I'm sure it had nothing to do with being at da gym by 5 this morning. Seriously, it really [...]
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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