Scratchings in the Dirt

My baby is graduating

My middle baby, that is.  I’m not sure why these things always blind-side me the morning of the big day.  I mean, it’s not like I haven’t known it was coming up.  For heaven’s sake, there have been countless meetings (seriously, countless), clothes ordered and prepared, housecleaning, invitations sent, hall decorating, portapotties delivered – you

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Happy Birthday, Adam!

My baby is nineteen today.  My first baby, that is.  As the book reads, “as long as you’re living, my baby you’ll be.”  So very true. I remember so well the day he was born.  It was a gorgeous summer – hot days and rain nearly every night. Everything was so lush and green.  

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We’re getting a new bus driver.

Not because we need one.  Or even because we want one.  We’re getting a new bus driver because it’s a union, folks.  We have had at least one child riding this school bus since 1997, and there have been a lot of different drivers.  Last year, a woman who lives in our area got the

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Quick Takes – again!

1.  We think Derek has some strange, rare disease.  He just went out and started cutting grass ON HIS OWN,  WITHOUT BEING ASKED!  I don’t believe the symptoms are full-blown yet, though, because he hasn’t done the other jobs that are waiting to be done. 2.  Stephen went to a friend’s on a Saturday night

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