Ho Hum

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 [...]

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Festival of Butterflies

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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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 [...]

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Yearbook Yuks

Andrea just got her senior pictures and I just found a hilarious website that allows you to see what you’d look like in yearbooks through the decades. Yearbook Yourself. We’ll start with Andrea… here’s her senior picture (Class of ‘09!):

But here’s how she would’ve looked in yearbooks from 1984 and 1990:

The first one [...]

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On the way to the town dump…

Me: I can’t believe how much you got stuffed in your trunk.
Him: Isn’t that a song?

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Real Estate

Here’s our current house:

Here’s the house Rodney is smitten with:

The goal is to downsize so we’ve been looking at townhouses but I came across this place and it is so “us.” It would be a downsize as it’s less square footage and considerably less cost than our current house, but it’s [...]

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