Recently, I’ve been thinking about beauty. As I look in the mirror, I wonder what will happen to me as I age. Will I get crows feet? Gray hair? A wider waist? One thing I do hope to have are laugh lines. Lots of them. I hope I laugh through the years as they pass. […]
Entries from August 2004
Laugh lines
August 5th, 2004 · Comments Off on Laugh lines
Tags: journal
July’s joys in the garden
August 5th, 2004 · Comments Off on July’s joys in the garden
Here are my three favorite pictures from the past month: crocosmia snapdragon city dahlia – the only one that bloomed well this year… compare it to this picture from last year of the same plant…
Tags: gardening
Double treasure
August 5th, 2004 · 1 Comment
When we moved to California, I was glad to have the opportunity to get to know Katherine better, since we lived only blocks apart from one another, and I also was able to spend time with her mother. I remember one occasion when Katherine and her beloved got to go away by themselves. Patricia came […]
Tags: friends
Caught in the cookie jar
August 4th, 2004 · Comments Off on Caught in the cookie jar
Yes, this picture is posed, after the fact, but I did catch our youngest, Elisabeth, with her hand in the cookie Tupperware. She is a clever one, this #3. I don’t know if it is because she is the baby of the family, but she has her ways of getting attention. I don’t remember our […]
Tags: family
Why moms shouldn’t stay at home
August 4th, 2004 · 2 Comments
Gretchen Ritter in her piece The messages we send when moms stay home published in the Austin-American Statesmen (registration required) described why “full-time mothering is bad for children”, women, men and society. I found her essay through my homeschooling yahoogroup and I’ve seen a number of rebuttals to her piece. However, I wanted to link […]
Tags: motherhood
