There’s a treelined path at the YMCA field where my kids play soccer. I didn’t notice it until a week or so ago. It’s absolutely beautiful this time of year. You should totally go and see it before winter leaves us all cursing and hoping for an early spring. It’s located...
It’s not easy keeping my kids fueled up. They stay so busy with schoolwork and a variety of extracurricular activities and they are always hungry. I’m always worried about their nutrition and whether they’re getting enough of the right stuff. To ease my mind, I depend a lot on...
Yesterday, the Super Bridgy went on a field trip to the Oklahoma Science Museum. While she was there she saw some face painting being done. She promptly came home and colored her face with a waxy blue crayon – two minutes before we had to walk out the door for her brother’s baseball...
Boy’s First Communion We celebrated Sullivan’s First Communion on Sunday. I was so proud of him! He’s been looking forward to this all year. At the end of the day, I tucked him in bed and I said, “You’re growing up so fast. You’re becoming a young man right...
There were four of us huddled together in the same bed. Two of us were crying and two of us were not. Someone said, “Don’t Cry.” But, someone else said, “Don’t Stop.” And, then: “Let them cry their tears of grace.” I wondered what it meant and then...
Please excuse my house, tilted frames, and that lamp, so 90s. At the first mention of snow, the Super Bridgy put on her ski suit, boots and jacket. We have light accumulation in Oklahoma City right now. All of 1/2 of an inch. You gotta hand it to a girl who is ready for adventure. Way to go, Super...
I want to live an honest life. Writing helps me neutralize my shame and face my failures so they don’t control me. I need to write to be healed, one word, one post at a time. Kurt Vonnegut said, “Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world your...
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Boy. Our large elm tree is the first on our street to lose all its leaves. Sully says the tree told him it’s so we can make leaf piles while the days are still warm. This year I hung lights on poles around a bed of leaves. So, I say, “The tree talks...
There’s not been an autumn when so many yellow leaves have fallen and still so many green leaves were left on the trees. Winters can be pretty brutal in Oklahoma. We’ve been known to have horrible ice storms. Spring can be scary, too, with all the tornadoes. And, there’s been a...
My kids scored a Dracula Pez at the house on 19th Street this year. Yea! Dracula Pez Happy Halloween! I wanted to share some pictures with you of our wonderful night Trick-or-Treating in Heritage Hills, our Oklahoma City neighborhood. Sullivan was a skunk, although he kind of looked like a black...
My sweet little girl Bridgy brought me a handful of autumn goodies she collected yesterday in Heritage Hills, our Oklahoma City neighborhood. She found all these things on the grounds of the Overholser Mansion. I showed her how to make a fall color palette from all the things she found. She was...
I do what I can to keep my kids from spending all their free time in front of computer and TV screens. So, on Saturday, when Bridgette got bored I told her we could have a tea party with all her Lalaloopsy dolls. We got out all these cool embroidered cloths I found an estate sale, put on the tea...
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