The Last Day of Summer

The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow!!
**Think “Annie” when you read that title**  The sun actually came out today though!  But I’ve had that song in my head all day.  After four days of RELENTESS rain and WIND, the sun was quite the welcome change of pace.  This area absolutely got HAMMERED this past few days.  I’ve lived here in the Virginia Beach/Norfolk area for 21 years ago this month.  I’ve seen several hurricanes and quite a few nor’easters (I admit I had no clue what that was when I first moved here, but it’s another name for a really nasty storm when you have an ocean to your east, a bay to your north, and rivers and tributaries running throughout every nook and

What DO You Do?
After the kids grow up? I’ve always had all this energy that I directed toward my boys while they were growning up. You know the drill – driving them all over God’s green earth, helping them with incessant homework and their ongoing activities, and feeding them constantly. It’s stunning how much two teenage boys can eat! And they wanted to eat more than once a day; the nerve. Well, with them on their own, I’ve been left with a lot of extra time and energy. The first thing I did was throw myself into my job. I didn’t do it conciously; it just sort of happened. In fact, I had one boss that bought me a book on Co-Dependency and order

It’s A Family Tradition
Not exactly like Hank Williams Jr. wrote it (we don’t “get stoned and sing all night long”), but we DO have our family traditions. With my youngest child getting married and adding a new wife/daughter-in-law to the family, this quiet young girl has had to adjust to our dingdong family traditions pretty quickly. And along with all the different personality traits she’s had to become accustomed to, there’s also the holiday traditions and. . . . birthday traditions! I LOVE doing birthdays! Not MY birthday. Other people’s birthdays. And sweet DIL just celebrated her 21st birthday. I couldn’t let it slide under the radar. That̵

Happy Halloween 2009
My scary little skeletons almost 20 years ago. Aren’t they precious? My oldest STILL dresses up. He loves Halloween and loves the “shock factor” even more! Tonight, he’s going to a Halloween party at his friends’ house dressed as a baby; more specifically, Baby Herman in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”.

If You EVER Feel Stupid. . .
Just dig this up and read it again. You’ll begin feeling like a genius in no time. Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: “I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever.” –Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest