Once more, David
Vancil Funeral Home published David's obituary online on Monday and I burst into tears upon reading it. It just made it so real. It was a rough couple of days after that. Today it was published in the paper. Here it is. David's Obituary. Because I was prepared this time, I didn't have the viseral reaction. I'm just sad. His daughter Mercedes was going to put together a slideshow for his Celebration of Life but because she's so busy with so many death-related things that I told her I'd do it for her. So I've been taking pictures of pictures and many of them were from when he was a cute little...
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Christmas Gifts
I spent a good portion of yesterday taking down every last decoration and also the tree. I kind of miss the lights already since it's another gloomy day out there but am happy not to look at the...
Christmassy Stuff
I feel like i'm done with Christmas now, tired of all the stuff that I put up everywhere. When Amy and Jim came over for Christmas dinner they seemed stupefied by the amount of stuff I had out, but...
happy…two days after Christmas…
yeah, it was a blur. too much waiting til the last minute, too much "this won't take long" and so Christmas eve day and Christmas were nonstop cleaning/cooking/wrapping/other crazy xmas stuff....
Countdown to Xmas!
I was startled to see that i'd last posted on the 13th; how is it possible six days have whooshed by? And even more alarming is that Christmas is in six days! I mean, in perspective it's not really...
good grief.
It's the beginning of the middle of December, really? Already? At least i've updated my banner. Here's the loveliest picture I feel i've taken in a long while. December 2nd, when the clouds were...
Biking the Sangamon Valley Trail, Part 2
Kevin and I went on a great bike ride on the Sangamon Valley Trail on Sept. 16th, our 14th anniversary. It's a lovely, flat path, and 23 miles round-trip. We decided to hit the trail again on...
the beautiful trees
I'm pretty sure that every year i post photos of the dazzling red trees over by the university. but that's not going to stop me from doing it again. here they are on October 25th. Here are a couple...
wrapping up October
Friday October 30th, mom and i walked at Lincoln Memorial Gardens and it was mighty chilly and windy, but the trees were beautiful. We'd put on our masks whenever people passed by but they were...
the last warm day of the year…
kevin and i have been doing all kinds of projects outside because indian summer is coming to an end later in the day. it's been in the 70s and i've gone running for the the past couple of mornings...