My new rule as it relates to laundry: One load a day. It sounds simple enough, but it must be completed from start to finish… as in washed and moved to the dryer before it gets smelly, dried and removed from the dryer before it gets wrinkly, and just as important, completely put away before [...]
Read full post...I really should try to make some audio files of these, but I was thinking today of some really cute ways Jocelyn pronounces certain words:
Names
Grammy = “Mammy” (even though she knows G begins the names Grammy, Grandpa, and Grandma)
Jocelyn = “Jah”
Alexis = “Yah”
Julia = “Mama Tay Doo” (She thinks Julia’s whole name is “Mama’s friend [...]
Two out of the three books I checked out this month, Visual Quickstart Guide: Dreamweaver MX for Windows and Macintosh by J. Tarin Towers and Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, Third Edition by Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos, just didn’t get read. These are books I need to reference while sitting in [...]
Read full post...The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to “restore reading to the center of American culture.” Amen to that. More books, less TV. That’s my initiative. Learn more by visiting the Spartanburg County Libraries website. Free paperback copies of the Great Gatsby will be given away at Gatsby [...]
Read full post...It had been a while since I tasted my mom’s oatmeal cake with peanut butter icing. We were having our annual church-wide fellowship, so I decided to make it since I had all of the ingredients. I knew the cake would conjure up childhood memories, but when I smelled the icing melting onto that hot [...]
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