Happy birthday Deb! It was fun to celebrate with Deb at the reunion. She is a ‘Violet’ cousin. I even wore my violet bracelet in her honor. Her friend Maria from Charleston sent her a goodie box, and she wore…

Logan was STILL AWAKE when I got up this morning! He said he was just going to stay up all day. I figured that wouldn’t happen. We had breakfast, and I started laundry, and by the time I was done…

Logan slept in this morning, so I got the whole house cleaned except for his room. Just started mowing when he woke up, so made him breakfast, finished mowing, then got a shower. Otherwise it was a fairly common day.…

It felt strange to not be cleaning house today – but I did go to work for about half an hour for Joe. On the way home I stopped to grab something for the family reunion on Saturday and my…

Logan slept really late, so I was able to get tons of things done before noon. By the time he had a few scones and I cleaned up my project, it was almost 3pm. We had a long chore list…

On this date in 1991 the kids’ father – Stoney Burke – passed away suddenly and unexpectedly. They were 9 and 13. It’s hard to believe he has been gone that long. — But, on with today! I went to…

So I think I am going to write this post for today backwards. I’ll start with church this morning. Last week I posted that we had a trial sermon by a guest minister to be considered as a senior pastor…

I was up a little after 5am – started with morning chores and was ready to go when Teresa got here at 6:50am. The day started out overcast but we thought that would be a good thing – keep the…

What did I even do this morning? Oh. I did some laundry and organized things for tomorrow’s trip to Dan Rice Days. I looked up some info online – like what weekend TALL SHIPS ERIE was – not this one!…

Work was light this morning – and that helped since I had my yearly dermatologist appointment. For the first time in YEARS I was all good! No spots or bumps or issues. YEA! When I got home they had just…