Dusting Off Old Skills
Recently I was able to make use of skills I previously demonstrated at work. This past Friday, my mother-in-law was told by the rehab facility that they would be moving her out of her private...
Yearly Archive: 2014
Coming Up For Air
Since my last post, I’ve gone down a rabbit hole of going through and organizing 590.7 GB of video on our hard drive. (Don’t worry, I won’t share any of that video here.) It has taken me...
Knocked Down
Back during her Freshman year, a father of two of the players on Heather’s soccer team had put together a DVD of game highlights from the year. He also included a section highlighting hard hits over the...
Building My Audience
Nicole and I visited my mother-in-law who is in rehab following yet another knee surgery. She mentioned she wanted a new camera. So I bought her an iPad. (With her money. I’m not that...
Claire and Phil
After my last post, some of you may be thinking, “Uh oh, there’s trouble in paradise.” But no one ever claimed this was paradise. Today is our 26th wedding anniversary. The marriage got off...
Buttoned Up
The yard has pretty much been put to bed for the winter. Pool closed. Hostas cut down. Rhododendrons covered. About the only thing that hasn’t been done is the raking of the leaves. I don’t...
Quarter of a Century
As of today, I have been a mother for 25 years. I’ll try to keep from waxing poetic on being a mother. There is no way I could do the experience justice. I’ll simply say...
Cutting Corners
Since leaving work, I’ve had time to implement some cost saving measures and monitor finances a little more closely. It has become one of those challenges that I’m probably a little too fanatical about. Here...