One thing I love about our house is the shelves Steve built into our laundry room shortly after we moved in.
But the only problem with extra shelves and extra space? They tend to get a little overstuffed, a little overwhelmed, a LOT disorganized.
Archives For Misc.
Oh my.
I can’t tell you what it did to my heart to see Jodi make the suggestion that Smithellaneous readers might want to help out Julia and her son. And then to see another half a dozen of you join in with her and say that you were also on board with it? Well, Steve, Sarah and I are all incredibly touched by your generous, giving hearts. I always knew I had the best readers around!
(Scroll to the end of this post for more info on how you can help.)
Comments and Kristina Creek
Last week as I was glancing through some old posts, I came across this one called, “Introduce Yourself.” This post stood out to me especially because it holds the all time record for the most comments ever collected on a single post–164!
You know, it recently occurred to me that all of you wonderful Smthellaneous friends probably have no earthly idea what I do on my job. (My non-blogging job, that is.) So just for the fun of it, I leafed through a couple of weeks in my Day Timer at work and picked out some activities to list here from that period of time.
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Sarah’s childhood friend, Victoria . . .
just posted this picture of the two of them on Facebook when they were both seven years old. (Sarah would have been about two months past her bone marrow transplant.)
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As promised, here is the recipe for the cake I made for Steve’s birthday. It’s a perfect springtime treat!
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It has been reported in some quarters that southern women don’t sweat, they glisten.
To that little piece of nonsense I say a most emphatic, “Ha.”
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I’ve had a lovely Mother’s Day.
I got a card and corsage from Steve this morning . . .
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On the afternoon of Sarah’s prom, I was up in her room taking a few pictures as she and Taylor finished getting ready. In the midst of our conversation Taylor suddenly said, “Oh, I just remembered! I left my corsage at my house; I’ll have to run back and get it.”
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Yesterday I had to drive to Greenville for a lung x-ray and pulmonology appointent. I left quite a bit earlier than I needed to so that I could take some photo detours.
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Wednesday’s post about a car reminded me of a video in my archives that features Steve telling a funny car story. I thought I had posted it already, but it turns out I haven’t. So today is your lucky day!
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Running . . . toward trauma.
Do you know what struck me the most about the images coming out of Boston after the blast? It was the divergent directions in which people ran after the first explosion.
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