Thursday Thirteen

Mar 22

Thirteen things I couldn’t live without in the kitchen: Reynolds Wrap Release – how did I live without this stuff? A really good knife – because chopping vegetables with a cheap knife is a giant pain. An enormous stainless steel bowl – I hate mixing something up and having it fly out of the bowl, and I like being able to double recipes with...

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Jack @ 20 months

Mar 20

Jack @ 20 months

It is harder and harder to get Jack to sit still for a picture. We took him, with Emily, to Target to have their picture made together, and it was like chasing a greased pig around a muddy pen. Just wasted a lot of energy and didn’t end up with much to show for it! For his monthly picture with the bear, I finally managed to get him to sit still, but only...

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My new favorite desktop wallpaper site

Mar 19

My new favorite desktop wallpaper site

Check out the Socksoff wallpaper collection to get some really nice images for your desktop- it’s one of the best sites for wallpaper I’ve visited in a long time. I appreciate one of my favorite bloggers, David Airey, pointing me to this...

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Some pictures and some quotes

Mar 16

Some pictures and some quotes

      Check out the rest of these sets of pictures at my Flickr page. I was looking for some quotes to put on a page of girly stuff for my printables4scrapbooking site, and I thought these were funny: I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now. ~ Will Rogers Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before...

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The day my daddy died – part 3

Mar 14

today’s post is the end of Mom’s account of her father’s death. With the dawn of a new day, people began coming to the house with food and to express their condolences – some immediate family members and others from our church family, First Baptist Church, Brownfield. We had purchased Daddy a suit for Christmas; it was under one of the beds...

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