The caged bird is free....

What a great loss, but what a great legacy.

Some of my favorites:


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Sometimes life is so crazy that you fall asleep in your clothes and wake up the next day looking like this:


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Even though it means I get woken up in the middle of the night, I still love seeing this girl next to me in the morning.  It reminds me how small she still is but how fast she is growing.


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Did you know that we are facing a great lime shortage?  It's true!  Thanks to a combination of bad weather, disease and supply restriction in Mexico, limes have gone from pedestrian garnish to luxury item!  The wholesale price of a case of limes has gone from $15 to $100 and has even prompted drug cartels in Mexico to hijack trucks carrying this ( Read more... )

If you leave your phone or iPad unattended for even a handful of minutes, this is what you will find when you come back.

Seriously.


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I have a terrible habit of buying jewelry and never wearing it.

I used to keep everything stowed in an upright jewelry case, but the problem was if I didn't see it, I didn't wear it.

These two projects took less than 30 minutes each.  Even if I forget to wear the stuff, at least it looks pretty hanging up.


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The other night Eliza asked if I would help her take photos off of her phone and upload them to my computer.
There were over 700 photos on her phone.
SEVEN. HUNDRED.

Most of them looked something like this:


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This winter has...how do I put this delicately??

SUCKED.

Cold, miserable, brutal, depressing....those are just words.  Words that can't even begin to descriptively assess the true misery that has been winter in Illinois.  A friend sent me a link to this article this morning, and this pretty well sums it up ( Read more... )