Jude and sharks

Jude has taken an interest in sharks.  When I say “taken an interest” what I really mean is that he enjoys looking at shark books and reading shark facts more than he likes eating.  Almost.

Of course, his intense interest in sharks has shown up in his artwork and book-making.

This was made one [...]

Books by Jude

I’ve been purposely quiet on the blog about Jude as it concerns school.  He majorly struggled at the beginning of the year and had a few very rough weeks.  I’ve been cognizant of his need for more privacy as he’s now in school and didn’t want to detail the ins and outs of his “issues”.  [...]

Indulgence

Today I did something I should have done a long time ago.

I bought a bunch of these babies:

I am throwing away [in my garbage can] EVERY.SINGLE.ONE.OF.MY.OLD.DISH.CLOTHS.

I have had the same stained, ugly, mismatched, holey, disgusting dish rags since we got married.  Only, they weren’t that disgusting when we got married.  It’s [...]

Before I forget

I wanted to put down in words my experiences of today before I forget.

Today was the day my friend Shanlyn and I have been training for since June.  We’ve spent a lot of time, a lot of miles, a lot of laughs, some grumbling, yes, but not much – together.  It’s been an [...]

My Jett

I love this boy.

It seems like I could be writing about a lot of different things today, but I keep coming back to Jett: thinking about him, wanting to share his goodness with you, wanting to recognize him for the awesome little boy he is.

He’s 4 1/2 right now.  Actually, yesterday would [...]

Oh my

Alright, guys, how could I fully share our South Dakota experience with you and not share one of the most interesting, profound, confusing, unique things I’ve ever seen?  I would be doing you a disservice if I didn’t.  I just love you too much.  Much too much.

As I mentioned yesterday, we had kind of [...]

Badlands

I’m back to writing about the weekend vacation that happened over a month ago.  Little happens in my life, ok?

One thing we did this time we were in South Dakota that we didn’t do last time we were there, was visit the Badlands.

We drove a really long time to get there, but when [...]

Running

I am running in the IMT Des Moines Half Marathon in a few weeks.  My running partner Shanlyn and I have been training since June.  We were following our training plan to a T.  Were being the operative word.  The plan we were/are following was the one from the IMT marathon website.  We found through [...]

Excuses, excuses

I am sorry I didn’t blog last week.  I really haven’t been on the computer much since getting my iPhone, and it’s hurt my blogging practices.

Another thing that has hurt my blogging routine: Tetris.  App purchased for said iPhone.

Another culprit: an external hard drive that is now home to all of my pictures [...]

Mount Rushmore

Yes, I’m still blogging about our Labor Day trip to South Dakota, why do you ask?

(Oh, brother.)

I still have some pictures I’d like to share, that’s why. 

This picture was taken right as we were entering the park.  You’ll have to take my word for it.  It was a brilliant day: [...]