We went out of town for a couple of days, and when we came back, Miss Calico Meow Cat Baby Kitty was gone. Our neighbor across the street – a girl I want to hate for being so much cuter than myself and for having a cool job and a decorated, always-neat home and a [...]
We took a trip to Caddo lake. Which isn’t so much of a lake as it is a swamp, but the pictures on those Texas travel magazines have always intrigued Kevin, so my friend Nina and I decided that after ten years of hearing our respective boys say “We should really go there someday” maybe [...]
Oh. My. God. Nicolaus has been talking loudly for a SOLID two hours. I mean continuously. Every second. About his plastic apaloosa horse.
I wish so much I had a cassette recorder handy so you could hear this… here’s a sample sentence. I’m going to type as fast as I can, whatever he says for a [...]
A couple of hours after seeing Daddy’s electric shaver in the bathroom cabinet.
“Mama, did you cut all the hair off your face?”
“No, ladies don’t have to do that. Hair only grows on men’s faces. Ladies don’t have hair on their faces because it doesn’t grow there for them, so they don’t have to cut [...]
A few more from the swamp. Sorry for missing so many days the last couple of weeks. I have a doctor’s note I swear.