it’s a sign


The grands are here three days a week while Hollie and Ben are working hard for the money. Hurray for free childcare!

It’s all good. I do love the time I get to spend with my grands, Trouble and The Little Monster, a.k.a. Hazel and Fallon. I don’t recall working this hard back in the day when I had three babies in diapers and potty training and taxiing another to and from school and other activities. It’s amazing how parental amnesia makes us forget the really sucky, hard stuff. How else would our species survive? Then I happen to come upon happiness like this:

There she is, encouraging her baby sister Fallon.

Then Buster has to get in to the act, pressing his nose against the glass and getting all up in Hazel’s business.

And to think I find myself wondering, out loud, often, why it is that I can’t have nice things…or clean windows. After all these years, you’d think I would see and appreciate or accept the signs.

Sigh!

But thank goodness I do have so much fun and so many memories made with these two amazing grandbabies of mine…and with Buster too.

This week’s Focus 52 prompt was Signs. Be sure to check out more signs over at Jan’s place and may I invite you to join in on next week’s prompt. It is Silence. Now to ponder how I might capture silence with my camera here with this circus act.

delightful perversion


Happy Easter and Happy Passover one and all! I trust your celebrations, no matter how grand or how quiet, were as you would want them to be. For me, along with perhaps too many jelly beans and (can it be possible) too much chocolate, I enjoyed a delicious dinner that I spent the day preparing for my circus act and myself.

Broiled pineapple, mashed potatoes & leeks, biscuits & honey butter, leg of lamb Provençal all paired with a bottle of Marilyn Merlot….all so very delightful and delicious. Anyone who knows me too well perhaps gets the sick perverse joke here as I enjoy the leg of lamb with a glass of Marilyn perhaps just too much. Yes, I just might be perverse but it all was so good exorcising some old family holiday demons bite after tasty bite. And to think all these years I have been deprived of lamb…nevermore.