i’m feeling a bit sour this evening. i’m not going to babble on about the “why”. poor jimmy has heard it already. suffice to say i was tired of screaming tots (age 2 & 4). i doubted my parenting ability. i felt like a lousy mother. i was mortified that my poor neighbors hear my […]
Wanna get to know Miss Hannah? Well… this is an example of the type of story she comes up with. Where does she think of these things? She really is a clever creative imaginative girl. She’s had this funny thing for months about how she calls anything and everything Bob… so mostly it was funny […]
This is a snapshot of our weekend. Jimmy is expanding our garden box which required removing sod. Tru and I pretty much failed at our efforts… but we tried. We got new water bottles for the summer. I’m hoping they will last at least 3 years. Love those bright colors! Our old Camelbak ones worked […]
A Haiku poem has 3 lines. Lines 1 and 3 have 5 syllables. Line 2 has 7 syllables. Haiku poems are usually about nature. Abe came home from school this week with his book of poems. I really liked this one and thought it quite clever for 2nd grader Abe. I asked Hannah to write […]
seriously? more pictures? what happens when the sun comes out and the grass turns green? we spend half of our life outside. because i’ve missed color so much during wintertime, I delight in attempting to capture things. my camera is a 1, my photography is about a 2.5 … but the memories of these little […]
Dear Grandma Nelson, Thank you for loving Basic-H. Know that your influence will be felt in this Smith household every time we clean. The kids can spray and scrub windows and bathrooms without feeling intoxicated by stinky chemicals. Thank you Quaker Duck. ~ Heather I’ve decided to get rid of all the cleaners with fumes: […]
While listening to the 2012 R.S. Auxiliary Training, I was able to look over the photos from this weekend. I love the colors, the sunshine, the memories. We worked, we played, we coughed (well, I coughed up a few lungs), we swept the garage, we picked up dirt clods, Jimmy worked outside fixing sprinklers and […]
Truman loves being outdoors. The outdoors loves Truman. Mom loves the “flower” Truman picked for her. This might be one of my favorite pictures ever… from the hole in the jeans, to the superman shirt… to the cheerful dandelion… to the bare feet…. to the green grass… to the squinty eyes from the sun. Truman […]
Today we had a great bbq in the backyard with the Smith kids. The weather was absolutely perfect. I’d keep it like this all year long… or we could move to San Diego. We were noting that half of the Smith kids are now living in Utah. Jimmy (and our fam), Julie (& Brock), Paul […]
Highschool. Sugar City, Idaho 1990s English Class. Mr. Thomas. Dear Mr. Thomas was our English teacher. He had glorious stories about the huge rats in Guam… and life in Guam… and other such tales of adventures. He seemed very old to us young-in’s. The main thing I remember about Mr. Thomas’s English class was SENTENCES. […]