Posted in Around Town, Books, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Nov 6th, 2009 No Comments »
The library had a book sale and I went and spent five bucks and got lots of books. So today I’m also thankful for book sales and the libraries that put them on.
Posted in Around Town, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Nov 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
Oh my! It’s the third of November and I haven’t started my traditional Thanksgiving lead-up thanksgiving. As always I must remind you all that this was my sister’s fabulous idea. If I don’t she’ll call me up and yell at me.
Today I am thankful for errands. For an excuse to be outside in the [...]
Posted in Around Town, Friends & Family, I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, On Being Single, Raquel on Oct 25th, 2009 1 Comment »
Yesterday was a crazy day. Due to circumstances beyond our control, which partly just means it didn’t get realized until too late, Go Play Peoria and the Reformation Day Faire were on the same day. So naturally we proceeded to devolop a complicated plan involving two major events, two vehicles, and nine [...]
Posted in Around Town, For Amusement Purposes Only, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Oct 12th, 2009 2 Comments »
I like to think that I am fundamentally insane; that this almost-mannered, nearly-rational persona is just a thin facade and that in reality I am truly a crazy, wild person. I have no idea if this is true so sometimes I have to do bizarre things to lie to myself- I mean, reassure myself that [...]
Posted in Around Town, Books, Gabrielle, I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes on Sep 17th, 2009 7 Comments »
Yesterday being our weekly library day I found myself at the library (weird, I know). In the midst of trying to find something for Samuel that took far too long to find and then ended up being not what he’d wanted I stumbled on a book called Dr. Suess Goes to War. It is a [...]
Posted in Around Town, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Thoughts About Beauty on Sep 8th, 2009 1 Comment »
It was in the evening. Tom was out helping a couple move and Elizabeth and I were watching a movie Elizabeth wanted me to see. Olympia wasn’t interested in our movie so she was curled up in the study watching something on the computer. The movie was just getting to the point I might have [...]
Posted in Around Town, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Sep 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
When I was in Erie Josh, Adiel, their kids and I took a trip down to Pittsburgh to visit my aunt and grandma and to see Grandma’s fancy new digs. At 84 she thought she’d uproot herself from where she’s lived for more than a decade and move to be closer to her daughter. I [...]
Posted in Around Town, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Aug 26th, 2009 No Comments »
As usual being in Erie sparked some blog post ideas. Rather than writing one big post about my recent vacation I thought I’d experiment with writing several vignettes. Maybe it will help me be more consistent about writing if I know I don’t necessarily have to write some long and interesting. If short and boring [...]
Posted in Around Town, For Amusement Purposes Only, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Jul 9th, 2009 5 Comments »
Last night Raquel and I went out to dinner as sort of a “You’re leaving for two and a half weeks so we should do something fun” celebration. We went to FlatTop Grill then wandered over to Borders that was having a fun clearance sale. I found Eats, Shoots and Leaves in the clearance box [...]
Posted in Around Town, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Not Much of Anything on Jul 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Our family had big plans for Independence Day. We were going to sit on the front porch with a cooler full of soda and beer and be hospitable to all the people out and about. Last year there was a lot of activity on our street and this year we were going to be a [...]