It used to be the crazy busy nights of getting ready to go out with friends or just to dinner. Sometimes we traveled back to my college town or thereabouts to meet friends. Many times to the Big D, places with a wall full of beers on tap and pool tables filling one room. Sofas…
First Thing in the Morning
The alarm goes off. The light through the window confirms another new day. I slowly emerge from my warm, morning cocoon of blankets, a free arm, now chilled. I am suddenly aware of the morning’s news stories and the extra warmth on my right side, in the form of a child, nestled up against me….
Leftovers
I’ve been “single parenting” a bit lately and even though Tim has not been around very much for dinner, I’m still making the same amount of food for our family in the evenings. This means the fridge is full of leftovers. When he does return home to sleep for a few hours, he’s spent. The…
Neck Ties & Flash Drives, Oh My! {Happy Father’s Day}
The two little kids made Tim some neck tie art while at the nursery during church this morning. I find it kind of funny since Tim rarely wears a neck tie these days. And I’m guessing that he’s not the only Dad that doesn’t frequently sport one anymore. Ties are just so… tight. I wouldn’t…
How We Met – VlogTalk
This time I’m vlogging after an emotional day (wallet was lost or stolen yesterday on the cusp of my monthly hormonal imbalance… *ahem*) so forgive the lack of make-up and contact lenses. If you didn’t know, I’m practically blind but normally wear contact lenses. I didn’t have the energy to put them in today. It’s…
They were supposed to be yellow…
I trudged into the building, my tired body struggling, my eyes still burning and bloodshot from hours of crying. My boss wanted to know what was wrong so I told him. As was his way, he shrugged it off and told me there were other fish in the sea or some crap like that. But…
Bonus
There are days when my current “job” is hard-ish. Sometimes I wish for the times when I could get dressed every morning, have coffee in my office and eat lunch out with other adults at a decent restaurant. I miss feeling like I’m contributing to something “bigger”, more substantial. More significant. But then I snap…
The Day We Met
Imagine you are meeting someone for the first time. You want to tell them about yourself.Instead of reciting a laundry list of what you do or where you’re from, please give us a scene from your life that best illustrates your true self. I threw myself into the room, announcing I was there and the…
Time flies, but as long as I’m flying with him, it’s all good.
When I think about November of 1995 I recall how I was happy with my life as it was. I was in my Junior year of college, living with one of my best friends, having a good time and loving life as a twenty-year old. I was still “talking to” a boy I’d dated over…
Instead of 5 posts on this trip to NOLA you just get one long one
You gotta love a town where just two blocks away from a street with BEAUCOUPS bars and strip joints there’s a cathedral that has been named a Basilica AND the Pope John Paul II visited in 1987. Wonder if he sprinkled Holy Water on Bourbon St. Now, let me make myself clear, I am NOT…