Mixed Feelings

Actual conversation at dinner tonight:

Son: "Mom, when are you gonna get a job?"

Daughter: "No! Don't get a job! Let Daddy be the worker and you be the ... Mom. I want you to be home when I get home. You can get a job when we go to college. Except not in the summers when we come home."


Any room for a happy medium?

Nine Now

I did it! Climbed Mt Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States, at 14,597 ft.

I really, really felt like I needed to achieve such a climb. I'm so glad I did. It was one of the most challenging physical triumphs of my life. And its challenge made it all the more rewarding.

But I could not and would not have done it alone. I'm so very thankful - and humbled - that my dad, my husband, my brothers, and my friend made the trip with me.














And now my Top 10 list is down to 9. Now to whittle it down to 8...