When my oldest daughter started bringing homework home (i think it was the third grade) our school nights became a battleground. My daughter would bring out every arsenal within her power…and it was exhausting. I dreaded homework. My daughter didn’t understand homework was non-non-damn-no-negationable. She wanted me to do it. I didn’t want to. She…
Month: September 2016
at the bottom of the hill
from my daughter’s new high school, is a HUGE nursery. Andy’s Creekside Nursery is a privately owned & operated business on Rocky Ridge Road in Vestavia. #buylocal… Here is the problem, i usually drop my daughter off at 8:00am, guess what time Andy’s opens?! yes, 8:ooam. i have an incredible weakness for nursery’s…and i have…
i put the cat food in the birdcage to keep the opossum…
…from eating the bowl clean. it worked for a few days, but the possum comes every night about midnight (like a werewolf) & he found the food after three days. sadly, i wake up to the sounds of the starving cats, weak from hunger, because they only have food in their bowl from 6am until 11ish…
i look best when the light is…
behind me.
nature’s calligraphy
i think another example of art imitating life. it inspires me.
cutest baby lizard ever
same iphone picture. i captured the lizard my son caught.
you stand out
the mandolin with the different color is wrong…do you think the Maker designed that one odd-colored mandolin to be better or worse than all the others? i suppose the multitude can decide. i know it a reflection…just making a point. no matter how differently we look from one another, at least its nice to know…
In honor of love lost
My daughter had a wonderful friend, he lived with his mother & grandmother in Bermuda. He called me mom & Sophie called Judah’s mother, mom. both of us moms knew how important their relationship was. i was in the kitchen, one night, trying to make a snack…Sophie walks into the kitchen & i was aware…
for the love of song
music, the Universal Language.
i can’t find the watering can
do you see it?