Happy Mother's Day

We celebrated Mother's Day at my house on Friday night. My older daughter made this framed collage of pictures from when she and her sister were little. I love it.

My younger daughter wrapped up a brownie mix box and promised to make those for me this weekend. She also gave me this handmade card - hilarious!

(That's me telling her to clean up her crap.)

(And this is me doing a cannonball into a cup of coffee.)

These 2 girls keep me laughing every day. I love them, and I love being their mom.

Happy Mother's Day!

Flooded

You may or may not have heard about the disastrous flooding that occured over the weekend in the Middle Tennessee region, flooding parts of downtown Nashville, the Opryland Hotel, much of Bellevue, Kingston Springs (my little town), Pegram, and many other areas. Given other events in the national news, it is my understanding that much of the country knows little to nothing about what is happening here.

13-17 inches of rain fell in the region on May 1 and that volume of water had nowhere to go. Officials are calling this a 500-year flood. Most of the homes that were flooded are not insured for flooding, as they are not in a flood plain. Who would have ever thought the Opryland Hotel would have 6 feet of water standing in its beautiful conservatories? Who could imagine cars floating on I-24 or a school portable floating down the interstate like a houseboat? The Country Music Hall of Fame and the Schermerhorn Symphony Center took on water. Business on Lower Broadway are flooded, including the lower levels of the building I work in. So many have lost everything that it is absolutely heartbreaking. This video is a house across from my kids' middle school being swept away:



Flood across from middle school

However, there is also this uplifting story about a beautiful lady whose house was also on that street and was also lost:


Cheatham County Cleanup

Keep our area in your prayers. Not only are folks here dealing with property damage and a mess that will take months to clean up, some have lost loved ones.

Thanks.

"Honey! One of these socks is too tight."

To all husbands out there (I know, I know. I have very few male blog readers that I know of, but here goes):

IF you were the last one to use the carpet cleaner, and
IF your wife decides, in a moment of pure insanity, that she needs to clean the carpet, and
IF she finds that the carpet cleaner was left with unused water in it, and
IF the machine is no longer operable...

DO NOT, under any circumstances, attempt the following:

* Tell her "Well, it was working the last time I used it." That really doesn't help, because it is not working NOW and she has not touched it in months or maybe even years.

* Make the statement "You probably forgot how to work it." Really? I can feel a slight chill in the air.

* "Accidentally drop the heavy metal handle on her head while she is sitting on the floor dismantling the machine to ascertain the problem. It is doubtful that this maneuver will render her unconscious. Even if you succeed, upon regaining consciousness, she will likely still remember that were the one who broke the machine and will most definitely remember that you bludgeoned her with a piece of the cursed beast.

* Once she has fixed the problem, reassembled the mess and proclaimed victory over yet another household appliance, look at her from the couch where you are watching football reruns, roll your eyes and sarcastically remark "You're amazing."

Despite any or all of these actions, if you have a wife who is knitting socks for you, she will most likely continue to do so -- probably not because she cares if you're feet are warm, but because now she needs an outlet to work out her frustrations. So...

I'm quitting my chores for the evening and going back to work on my husband's second sock. If he observes that this one seems a little tight, well then...let's just say I have sharp pointy sticks and I can do more than just knit with them. :)