Quiet Reflection

Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah

Last Friday as I was taking pictures of S and her friends before they went off to prom, I realized how close we are to the end of this journey with her. I am not ready to let her go off to college, even though I'm sure that she's more than ready.

I had a bit of perspective as we were driving past the cemetery on the way to dinner, after seeing the kids off to the dance. There was a man standing in front of a tombstone. He had sat a huge package, wrapped in bright paper, next to the grave and he was holding a bunch of colorful balloons. They were red, blue, green, yellow, and pink.

We have driven past the cemetery several times this weekend. Even after all of our storms, the package and balloons, although drooping, are still there. A reminder to me that I am very blessed to have my children with me and that even when they move away, they are still only a phone call away.

Senior Prom

Smarty's Senior Prom was last night. They actually have a combination Senior/Junior Prom. She doesn't have a boyfriend, but she took one of her friends from church.

Enjoy the pictures.

Having fun with the girls

What cute kids

We had company this week

Off to dinner

The theme was Fly Me To the Moon

I can't believe that she's almost done with high school. Trying not to cry, but I'm a mom.

Strange Cats

We're good cats! We would never make a mess in your box! Promise!

Marvelous uses a big Rubbermaid box for her clothes basket. (I don't know why. I didn't purchase it for this purpose. She just adopted it.) Anyway last week when she washed her clothes she left the box sitting on the floor in the laundry room. The laundry room is also referred to as the Cat Room at our house, because that's where the litter boxes are. One or both of the cats decided M's box was a new litter box and peed in it. Isn't that strange that a cat would want to pee in an empty box? M washed it out and that was that.

Tonight M is doing her clothes and had set the box in the laundry room. When she went to switch the clothes she saw pee in the box again. She wasn't thrilled about having to go out in the dark to clean it up with the hose.

Now the box is sitting upside-down, on top of the washer.

In case you're wondering if the cats pee in the box when it is in her room, the answer is No. She keeps the lid on it in her room though.

Hubby's Busy Day

Below you can see how Hubby spent his day--or at least his lunch-hour. He is humbly refered to as "a Volkswagen employee" in the article. I couldn't find any pictures.

He is a little sore, but otherwise doing just fine.

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Happy Anniversary

Life imitating art, sort of

Today is Hubby and my 18th anniversary. In some ways that sounds like a big number, and in other ways I can't believe it hasn't been longer.

We went to Chattanooga this weekend, just to drive around and get a feel for different areas. All the houses I like (old and with character) are in crummy neighborhoods. All the "safe" neighborhoods are full of cookie-cutter homes.  We ended up downtown and went for ice cream.

Ice Cream Shop

Then we walked across this glass bridge. I have an irrational fear of walking across glass, and of watching my kids walk on it. When we went to the Corning Museum in New York a few years ago, I forbid the kids to walk on the second floor glass floor. Of course that meant they all scrambled out on it and danced around, taunting me and my phobia. I made it across this glass bridge by looking straight ahead, staying on the metal strip in the middle, and holding on to Hubby's hand for dear life. The important thing is that I made it.

I am nervous just looking at Smarty standing on this bridge!

The other irrational fear I have is that I can't stand to see my kids leaning over balconies or anything up high. Combine that with a glass railing and you get me hyperventilating and Mr. C laughing his head off at his crazy mom.

Step away from that railing this instant!

The Big Dance

Green-Me, Blue-S, Pink-M, Yellow-Mr. C (Hubby doesn't play)

I figure I better post something about ISU being in the Big Dance today or it might be too late. For all my bad-mouthing and bitching about ISU, I am proud to see they made it into a bracket. I have officially picked them on our refrigerator edition of brackets. Smarty is blue and you'll notice that she picked Syracuse.

Speaking of brackets. I went to ESPN to fill them out on-line and ...someone has used my email address to make an ESPN account! If you stole my address for the benefit of picking your own brackets, shame on you! I was so ticked off that I didn't get mine filled in, not that I would have won. It's just a fun thing to do.

Best of luck to all of you and your picks!

Shopping Again

We are starting to get bored on Spring Break. We go to the store as an excuse to be out of the house. Mr. C loves to go to Sports Authority and dream about all the cool things he wants. Right now he's really into basketball--March Madness.

We always follow the same circuit through the store. Start at basketball, move on to skateboards & bikes, pass through shoes, across the back of the store to water toys, which are right next to the guns, a quick peak at kayaks, and then out the door. Mr. C totally overlooks the huge middle of the store which is made up of clothing. However, as he was otherwise occupied looking at airsoft guns, I saw a display of clearance winter items across the aisle. Gloves marked down to 44 cents. What a bargain! And we're moving North, so we'll need gloves. How could I pass that up?