The Personal Blog of a Gen X Mom.
Right before Christmas I started hearing a loud, swishing sound in my ear every time I went to bed. It sounded like it was in perfect rhythm with my heartbeat, like I was hearing my heart beat inside my ear. It was so annoying. The weather had View Post
This year I experienced my first fatherless Father's Day. June 2014 was the last Father’s Day I would get to spend with my daddy, but I wasn’t aware of it then. Despite knowing for the past five years that he was living on borrowed time, he was View Post
I just finished writing the last of the thank-you notes to friends who showed extreme kindness to my family after my daddy passed away a few weeks ago. The outpouring of generosity and love we have received has been such a blessing and I thought I View Post
I’ll admit it. I’m a bit of a Facebook addict. I check it several times a day on my phone and often keep it open in a window on my computer while I work at home. I can’t help it. All of my friends and family are there and I View Post
Well it’s been an interesting week in our little part of Mississippi, to say the least. We only get a good snow every few years and the forecast called for up to 5 inches on Wednesday, which is a lot for our part of the country. On Monday, the View Post
It seems like I blinked and 2014 is gone! It’s been a good year for our little family. We rang in the new year exactly like we did last year…on the couch watching all of the New Year’s Eve shows on TV and trying to stay awake until midnight. My View Post
It seems like it has been forever since I updated with a personal post, so I thought I would document some things here for posterity. That, and my blog has become a real snore! I have a third grader now. Here he is on his first day of View Post
Hopefully by now everyone is thawed out from last week’s Polar Vortex. You would think living in the South, the cold air that we got wouldn’t be all that bad, but even though we didn’t see any snow, the temperatures were pretty View Post
Well, tomorrow starts another school year for me. I’m really excited and nervous. Last week was filled with professional development and trying to unpack my things in the new library and get somewhat settled in. I still don’t feel like I View Post
I’m a little overdue posting this, but in April, my husband received his Million Mile driver award. My husband is a truck driver and he has worked for the same company for 12 years. In those 12 years, he has driven over a million miles accident View Post
So, when I last left off, I was gearing up for the end of the school year and dreading packing up my library. My school was being changed into a 9th grade academy for the next year and I was having to pack up EVERYTHING to be moved out of the View Post
