Note: Usually I note on the photos what each item cost but since there are so many photos in this post,  I will just let you know that nothing was bought new and the average cost of each item (clothes, shoes, jewelry) was about $4. I’d always heard the rumor that once you get past fifty, your waistline starts to expand. I never paid much…

Sarah woke me late last Tuesday night to tell me she had been up vomiting and was feeling really awful. I immediately threw aside my blankets and my exhaustion and morphed into mommy mode.  …

Here is my dashing, beardless husband and me after our Easter service.…

One day after the close of our drama, at the behest of his beauteous bride Becky, Steve shed, shaved, and sheared his beard. Of course, he couldn’t just shave it off without some humorously themed fanfare because that would be so very unSteve. Here is the Mutilated Sideburn.…