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...

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...

Continued from yesterday… Neva and I dressed quickly and left for the local hospital. I don’t remember much about the trip. It was a local hospital, not very large and not very far from our home. By the time we got there, there were already ambulances arriving bringing injured people. We were in a waiting area very close to the point of arrival and...

I mentioned in a previous post, when my “Memommy” died, that my mother’s father had been killed when she was a teenager. Since then, Mom has been thinking a lot about that time and what she could and couldn’t remember of it, and decided to write it all down. She ended up with a nice article that we have encouraged her to submit to the...

Check out this great deal on a multi-colored canvas organizer. The whole shelf/canvas bin set for just $13.95! I just ordered one. I’ve seen these at Target, and thought they were nice, but this is definitely a better price. (P.S., as my mom pointed out to me, it’s smaller than it looks in the...

I’ve discovered a new blog y’all might like, and in the process have entered a writing contest.  The contest is for posts about childhood memories, so I entered my post about memories of visiting my grandparents’ house as a child.  I don’t expect to even come close to winning, of course, but I thought my post fit the topic well anyway.  The...

Jack is a kissin’ fool nowadays.  Here he is leaning in to give his friend Steph a kiss on the cheek.  Now if I could just teach him to pucker!