For my second Pink Saturday, I remembered these tiny plates I have hanging on the side of a kitchen cabinet. (You know, I really have lots of purple and red in my house – is there a purple or red day challenge going on?)
My mom gave me these delicate plates and her [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Pink Saturday
Posted in Favorite things on August 30, 2008 | 18 Comments »
Ho Hum
Posted in Easily amused, House for sale, Rodney on August 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well nobody’s bought our house yet. We haven’t even had anyone come for a walk-through! We’re trying to sell it ourselves using Forsalebyowner.com and we are on the Kansas City [...]
Festival of Butterflies
Posted in Kansas City, Rodney, Wild kingdom on August 25, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Saturday Rodney took me to see butterflies. Actually the festival was over, but they still had the conservatory open through this weekend. I have no idea what the “festival activities” that we missed out on consisted of, I just wanted to walk amongst the “flying flowers!”
Look at this big butterfly [...]
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Posted in Eat up, Holidays & special occasions, Rodney on August 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Every year for Rodney’s birthday he wants the same dang thing: me to make him a fried chicken dinner and a devil’s food cake. I guess I’m a traditionalist, too. I have to put the number of candles on a birthday cake corresponding to how old the person is.
His [...]
Pink Saturday
Posted in Favorite things on August 23, 2008 | 28 Comments »
My first! (Thank you Beverly for hosting this sweet blog game). I assumed it would be easy to play; however, I don’t have as much pink around me as I thought. How sad is that? So it will be fun to search out this romantic color (and add more, as [...]
Available for Show
Posted in Favorite things, House for sale, Mother nature, Nostalgia, There's no place like home on August 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You know what’s so sad about putting your house up for sale? You get it as clean as the day you moved in… until it’s like new but better. Because over the years you’d figured out the most pleasing furniture arrangements and the closets are organized and you’ve hung pretty [...]
Muse
Posted in Andrea, Teenagers on August 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So, Andrea’s boyfriend drew a picture of her on her white board a few months ago and I have been begging her to erase it. “Nooo! Ryan drew it!” One would think it was a piece he’d toiled over with favor and admiration. You decide:
I do love the MOM [...]
