I am so fortunate. On Friday I got to spend time with my mother. I got fed winter squash chili, broccoli salad, home-made whole wheat rolls, and banana pudding with my groupies at Beth and Jim’s house, and Mombo came along. My sweet friend Jerry joined us, and then we all went to Hayley’s game […]

After Hayley’s game last night ( a valiant effort in a disappointing setting), I brought Mombo back to the Valley since it was after dark. We had quite the Clan contingent at the game (me, Mom, Jerry R., John, Dana, James, Susan, and of course all the Hellyers). This morning I took her back to […]

I remember having an Advent wreath from a very early age. We usually got the candles at a Rosary-Altar Society bake sale or something similar. We would cut a few branches from the evergreen bushes that grew around the porch. Dad made a holder out of rabbit cage wire, and we would stand the candles […]

After our big day on Friday, I headed to Danville to stop by the art center and see John’s original watercolor for the Brass Band Festival poster. I had to purchase a poster for myself and have it signed. It is magnificent (portraits of various hornblowers)–reminded me of when Wayne and I first came to […]

Today Mom got up at 7:30 because she knew she had to fast before her blood draw. We went to Danville to Dr. Aumiller’s office where they took her blood (we had stopped at Wal-mart first to drop off her film). Then we went into Lexington to St. Joe Office Park. She ate her breakfast […]

For those of you who don’t know–but I’m sure that you all do–my mom has had triple bypass surgery. I have been updating people by email, but I thought it might be a good idea to do a post as well. She was in the hospital 11 days. She would have been home in 10, […]

It is so wonderful to have Caitlan home. Unfortunately, she caught a bug somewhere along the line (maybe on the plane), so her first week home wasn’t the most pleasant. She and Kyle were able to eat dinner here in Campbellsville with Janet and me before she got sick. Janet made delicious taco soup. I […]

Friday–Saw Torrance Rylee, finally, and she fell asleep on my chest Groupies at Deb’s with heavenly potato cheese soup Spent the night at Sharon’s, served tea before bedtime Saturday–Took Camry to Miller’s for gasket replacement Sharon picked me up and dropped me at 4th saying she had a few errands before helping me paint Her […]

I never had a hard time not eating meat on Ffidays because I liked the food that we did have. I only remember one time that I was tempted to eat meat–Friday night football games and hot dogs. In those days we always had pizza and spaghetti with meat, and Mombo made vegetable soup and […]

Mombo began one of her blog entries with, “Ok, it’s 81.” Well, today I wasn’t feeling that it was ok to be 57. It felt way too close to 60. And a kid named Carlos hit my coffee mug with his backpack and sent it flying across the floor where it broke into 20 pieces […]