I was amused to read this article about Ford’s development of an ultra-safe inflatable seat belt. When are car companies going to realize that providing more safety is only backfiring?  Drivers feel too safe; too cocooned in their cars.  People are feeling invincible.  Ford has gotten it all wrong.  If you want drivers to be […]

Would someone please tell me how I could possibly have a fourteen-year-old?  I mean, when did that happen?   I lucked out with this girl. She’s the best child a mom could hope for. Love you India! Happy birthday!

Today is my anniversary. Or rather, my anniversary with Mister. We have been married for twenty years. That is a really long time. Although I look fifteen I was actually 21. At the time I felt rather grown up but as I look back I realize what an absolute child I was and what business […]

I fell in love with a skirt that I saw on Dana’s blog (she is mightily creative and a fellow Austinite).  It’s for a little girl, but I altered the pattern and made one for myself.   I don’t know why I like sewing when most of the time it ends up frustrating me to no […]

My baby doll is four today!  Hard to believe that four years ago I was in labor*.  She’s a spitfire and a charmer.  Baby Ada, we love you! (With her cousin Ellen W.) *She was my one try with natural childbirth and it was not the lovely experience that everyone described.  It was wretched.  It […]

My freshman year of college I lived in an apartment (because I was simply too cool to live in the dorms, if you must know) with four girls from Texas.  They were from a little town in eastern Texas named Gilmer (not Gilmore!).  They told me all about Homecoming and how the girls would wear […]

Just a little note to tell you that I am officially worn out.  This is the last week before school starts and I am running on fumes.  Thus, I probably won’t be blogging much.  I probably will once school is up and running and I have my life purring along.  It’s funny how much I […]

I had to take Jasper to the doctor yesterday. He was rubbing his ear all morning and moaning “ooouuuuch”. It turns out his right ear is so infected that it’s almost hemorraging. I don’t exactly know what that means, but I envision an explsion of goo and pus flying out of his ear like something […]

Yesterday I finished painting India’s bedroom. It’s cute, but still too messy to take an “after” picture. The bathroom next to India’s room is the main floor bath, and I couldn’t help but notice how boring and ugly it is. The color on the walls is the same beige that is in a lot of […]

I was amused to read this article about Ford’s development of an ultra-safe inflatable seat belt. When are car companies going to realize that providing more safety is only backfiring?  Drivers feel too safe; too cocooned in their cars.  People are feeling invincible.  Ford has gotten it all wrong.  If you want drivers to be […]

Yesterday I took my mother to the airport. (She’s been here for almost three weeks. WoW! Yes, that is a long time). When I dropped her off at 2:15 it was 81º. When I dropped India off at church five hours later it was 33º. And this morning there is a tiny smidgen of snow […]

I fell in love with a skirt that I saw on Dana’s blog (she is mightily creative and a fellow Austinite).  It’s for a little girl, but I altered the pattern and made one for myself.   I don’t know why I like sewing when most of the time it ends up frustrating me to no […]

I went to the gas station today and regular was at  What?  When did this happen?  I don’t really go anywhere and I haven’t filled up my tank for over two weeks.   What a lovely surprise.  I’m going to drive someplace far away to celebrate! UPDATE: Drove my kids to school today (Tuesday)–it was […]

Four days without writing in my blog! The longest I’ve ever gone, I do believe. Mister and I had a lovely weekend in Fredericksburg, Texas for his birthday. Fredericksburg, in case you’ve never been, is a quaint little town in the middle of nowhere (as is most every place in Texas). Most of the buildings […]