The Boy’s been frustrated lately with phones. Smart phones, to be precise. After a car cut us off the other day and he noticed the driver was on the phone, he exclaimed: Cell phones and smart phones haven’t made us better. They’ve made us worse drivers and disconnected people. You can have four people in […]
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Filled to the Tip Top and Flowing Over
…that was my schedule last week. It’s amazing I’m still standing, let alone not laying down with a cold compress over my eyes, having a case of the vapors. {Having the vapors just sounds so lady-like. I love that phrase. Moving on.} Here’s what a too-full schedule looks like. Feel free to share your personal […]
Tops of the Tops
Just for a bit of fun, I decided to look back through my blog posts from 2012 and see what received the most traffic. Here are the top 10 posts (in reverse order): 10: My recipe for non-fried pickles. 9: A photo montage of Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto concert 8: Step-by-step instructions on how to build a […]
I Need to Put Myself in Timeout
My family is coming to town in a few days for a wedding. In the midst of reading through coordination emails, I caught myself actually debating if I should spend part of next weekend hanging out with my extended family or if I should stay at home and squeeze in some work time. Not housework. […]
Continuing to Purge
At some point while I was purging the pantry and closets and file cabinets, I realized that purging is a pretty big element of what I’m doing in life right now. I’m taking time to look at the bits and pieces. I’m clearing out the clutter. Overscheduled? I’m saying no. Overcommitted? I’m delegating and transitioning […]
I Spy with My Eye
I do not fear going to the doctor. I don’t fear the dentist. Scrapes, blood and minor surgeries – no problem. Yet somehow going to the eye doctor causes me extreme anxiety. I suppose it’s related to my desire to be perfect. After all: Who wants to fail anything, let alone their eye exam? Add […]
Up in Smoke
Do you know what would be fun? I asked The Boy. Do I care? he replied. I ignored him. I think it would be fun to do a variation on the Festivus tradition of Airing of Grievances. Instead of talking about how we’ve disappointed to each other, let’s air our grievances from the past few […]
Holiday Wrap Up: Part 1
Limestone, prairieland, birds in flight, rolling hills and snow…it must be Christmas in the Flint Hills of Kansas: Slippery, slow, white-out, giant fluffy flakes…must be a post-family Christmas drive home through Oklahoma: And 2″ of snow on the ground at home…must be a White Christmas at the Hayley House (a first for our area since 1985!):
Giving Thanks
My Facebook feed seemed filled with thankfulness during November – a daily “thankfulness” project that many of my friends participated in. I didn’t. But that didn’t mean I wasn’t thankful. I was just overwhelmed…maybe a little too overwhelmed and distressed to think about being thankful. However, things have slowed down a bit and I thought […]
Science is Cool
While I’m waiting on The Boy’s surgery, I thought I’d write a quick post about what I was doing the day The Devastating Injury happened: Touring the new Perot Museum of Nature and Science. Courtesy of a colleague, I was given a preview pass to tour the museum prior to its grand opening. […]