When your children are finally old enough to stay home alone after school is both a liberating and terrifying time for parents. Like most parents, my husband and I made sure that both of our children, Kinsey and Aaron, knew what to do in an emergency. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2016
He seemed so normal…
Our German Shepherd, Kelly, did not understand the concept of weekends. So that summer Sunday morning when she woke me at 6:00 a.m. I got out of bed, took her outside and put her in her kennel. Kelly had a morning routine that consisted of announcing to the entire world that she was happy, that she was outside and that it was a glorious day. Continue reading
You’re Gonna Love it!
World Turtle Day makes me almost as happy as Happy Chewbacca Woman! #worldturtleday
My husband Steve, who had been off running errands one Saturday morning, returned home and burst through the backdoor yelling, “Wait ’til you see what I found for you, you’re gonna love it!” I watched as he went to the kitchen sink and washed blood from his right hand, the result of a decent sized gash to the webbing between his thumb and index finger. I asked him what happened to his hand and he said, “Don’t worry about that. I found the coolest thing, you’re gonna love it!”
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There’s a turtle in the tub
Happy World Turtle Day! #worldturtleday
No one was there when I arrived home from work one summer day but I did find a note on the kitchen table. It was written on the inside of a torn open Chun King Chicken Chow Mein box that had been taken out of the trash can. The letter, written in cursive, read:
Dear Jayson,
There’s a turtle in the tub.
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Cocoa and Speedy
On Easter Sunday in 1991, a friend of the family came to visit and brought two tiny brown dwarf rabbits; one for each of our children. To say my husband and I were taken aback would be an understatement; we had no idea our friend intended to give our children rabbits and we were just as surprised as the kids, but not nearly as delighted. Continue reading
Rabid Raccoon
It was only about 5 o’clock in the morning and still dark outside, when my husband woke me up saying, “There’s a raccoon on the front porch, should I shoot it?”
“Shoot it? No, don’t shoot it,” I said as I rolled over and went back to sleep. Continue reading
Stoner’s Steer
Our neighbor Judy had two dogs named Bigfoot and Danny and a goat named Rammy. Every morning before work she would get Rammy out of the barn and walk with all three in the field between our homes. The dogs and the goat would play and run around together with Judy following behind. Continue reading
The Loud-mouthed Rooster
Rooster photo by Robin Lewis CC-BY-2.0
I am not a morning person. I am slow to awake so when the rooster crowed, I easily turned over and fell back asleep. Several minutes later he crowed again and I dimly thought, “I wish that rooster would shut up,” before dozing off again. It took him a few more crows before he had me awake enough to think, “Wait a minute….I don’t own a rooster”. Continue reading
You’re Gonna Love it!
My husband Steve, who had been off running errands one Saturday morning, returned home and burst through the backdoor yelling, “Wait ’til you see what I found for you, you’re gonna love it!” I watched as he went to the kitchen sink and washed blood from his right hand, the result of a decent sized gash to the webbing between his thumb and index finger. I asked him what happened to his hand and he said, “Don’t worry about that. I found the coolest thing, you’re gonna love it!” Continue reading
Rags
In December 1983, a week after my husband, our daughter and I moved into our two-story home in the country, our son was born and our family was complete. Or so Steve and I thought. Two months later our friends came to visit and brought along a year old dog named Rags. Continue reading
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