For us country folk, all this melting snow means crazy things for our travels. Like fording rivers just to get down our driveway. You think I jest, but you think WRONG.
And then there’s the daily use of my unlimited car wash pass, to absolutely NO AVAIL.
Also, the moon-like properties of our roads that [...]

Could it be any sunnier lately? My goodness!
All this fabulous weather has inspired us to:
Clean out our closets (Purple Heart will find 4 bags on Friday, thank you very much!)
Cut off even more hair
Buy a new sun hat to compliment the shorter hair (Heavily inspired by the 1920s)
Thoroughly clean off the porch, where we have [...]

She’s cute.

And she totally knows it.

And she’s also totally going to hate me one day when she finds out I told Jim to “make sure you capture how fat her thighs are”.

But then, on some later day, she’ll totally love me for it.

That’s just the way these mother-daughter things work.

We’ve got a good new thing going here. It’s something I look forward to all week and it’s called Friday night. Oh, you have it at your house too?
Well, on OUR Friday nights, we have a warm fire, takeout from far and exotic lands like West Bloomfield , Southfield, or Ferndale. And to top it [...]

She had such dainty little feet for so long, I thought she’d escaped a couple of my less attractive genes.

Yeah. Not so much.

A slice of orange in our water
Taco soup (Jim added onions)
Tastefully Simple’s Beer Bread
Circadian Rhythm bedtiming (7:00!)
Short haircuts
Musicmakers
Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Tomten sweater pattern
A midweek babysitter for a midday run
A quickie 15-minute back rub from the Chinese place at the mall
You’ve been mighty quiet out there lately. Try something new today and leave a comment to tell [...]