Author: Mary Jo

These are the little “paintings” we made for the boy’s great grandparents. I was planning to do one for Reubmommy too but it didn’t go so well. I had to start over and it just wasn’t happening. So I made something else with it. I’ll show you that ano…

But no…we didn’t use it much. Kris got a few pictures of a turtle and an little alligator but none of the boys that I recall. So, I’m not posting the reptile images of our trip to the Aquarium in Chattanooga.

We had decided to do something speci…

Well we had a lovely Christmas day. Kris’ brother and his wife, Kevin and Jessica were here for a few days. They left this morning and his parents are here until Saturday. We had a get together on Saturday with the Buttons and the Fadely’s minus Travi…

Chloe has a finished gift but it is still here at the house. I felt so bad this morning when she visited and did not have a gift to open from us. I showed it to her and explained what it would be, but it needed 30 more minutes that weren’t available la…

We got a call from my brother Joel last night saying he is considering coming to Nashville for Christmas. That leaves dad to celebrate by himself unless my sister and her girls get over there somehow. Here is what He gets to look at though:

This is…

I finished the tree today. Hanging the last of the cookies up and putting all the bows on the gifts. It looks so much better with bows. If I had more time, I’d put popcorn strings on the tree as well, but I still need to do a little more baking and fi…

Today’s list of things accomplished:
* wrapped gifts
* picked up dry-cleaning
* made lunch
* took pictures of the boys for Christmas cards

That’s pretty much it. Of course I did a lot of mommy things in and through that short list, but it is rath…

I heard little stocking feet scuffling toward our bedroom this morning just after the alarm went off. I hadn’t gotten up yet because it wasn’t my alarm. The feet never entered the room though they stopped somewhere before the door and I dozed again. I…

Yesterday was memorable in that we had to drive to Kentucky to pick up some specialty items and on the way encountered hwy 100 with it’s numerous “tickle my tummy hills.” I think Becky’s kids were the ones who first named them this. The first one was a…

Yesterday the sun shown. It was warm and we got to enjoy it. Tisra and Amy and I along with 6 little kids took a drive to Spring Hill, did a little shopping, had a little lunch and then let the kids play at the park for a bit. It was beautiful and I’m…