Nathan peed is the potty yesterday.  It went like this:  he takes his diaper off, brings it to me.  Then apparently he brings his potty into the room where I am and goes it in!  I hear him peeing and almost freak out because I thought he was going on the floor or maybe in his Elmo airplane.  But he was doing it right!  So awesome!  He's gone before ( Read more... )

I mean, COME ON, Mother Nature. Why does home get all the snow after I leave?!?!?!

Our family farm is celebrating 100 years this summer. The reunion is planned for June 30 - why we planned on going to Texas when we are. This article was in the San Angelo Standard Times today ( Read more... )

I'd love a beer.
I'd love a cigarette.
I'd love to play 42 (particularly with brianblades and whoever doesn't mind if we kick their asses ( Read more... )

We're getting the house!

I know it sounds like we're buying it or something, but this is just as good for now. It's our first real house together. I'm so excited! Ah, it's so big - we need more furniture!

I didn't do much hunting, really. I drove by a few places. This is the last place I drove by. VERY nice neighborhood. If I'd seen a picture of the house itself, I probably wouldn't have driven by. It looks kind of shabby. I really hate the blue. But oh well; it's just a house, right? The inside is what becomes the home. Well, the inside ( Read more... )

A little about where I grew up. I read the San Angelo Standard Times online to keep up with what's going on around "home." This article says a lot about that area of Texas - with no particular name (no South Texas or the Valley or the Panhandle or Big Bend, etc.) I miss it there. ( No place like Nowhere )

Billy has funeral detail next week...in Florida...near Miami. (Someone from here in his brigade was killed this week in Iraq. They requested his brigade do the military honors.) I'm thinking I'll go home while he's gone (at least 4 days). I don't think I'll be able to handle 4+ days alone here. Plus, Mandy can have lots of playtime with Sadie ( Read more... )

Every morning I feel a little homesick. This might be because I go to the San Angelo newspaper online and see what's happening there before reading the obituaries. Don't know why I read the obituaries when I don't know that many people in Angelo anyway. But every once in a while I see someone I know or know of ( Read more... )

( What I've done with the place: )