A year ago today, a little over 5 months shy of her 90th birthday, Phyllis died.
She survived three older sisters, each of whom died in the month of September, and she used to joke, “I just need to make it through September, honey.” I guess she just decided that she had endured all the [...]
Our first week with the new big-girl bed has offered up a full range of sleeping exploits. It is simply amazing to me how, some days she will go to sleep on the first try, without any problems at all and other days – like oh, say, WEDNESDAY – she will outright refuse to [...]
Let’s talk tattoos. I have one. Celene has one. Steve has one. Rabia has one. Barboza has a couple. Kelly has one. My cousins Sean and Jo combined probably have about 600. Ivy has a couple. I think Brian even has one. And now, my Aunt Tess [...]
After spending a full month talking up the new ‘big-girl’ bed, we were finally ready to initiate Stella into the world of cageless sleeping. Concurrent with our cheerleading to Stella on how great this new change would be, was the cheerleading we were giving ourselves as to how it was not going to [...]
Each day brings a new little something that our clever girl figures out out how to do. In some cases this is cute and charming – other times not so much. Let’s look at a couple of examples:
Cute & Charming:
Poses down after she takes her vitamins, showing you how strong she is.
Likes having [...]