today was so people-y.

picked up Rip at vet. to DG to buy an envelope to mail back Coralie's watch. self checkout card reader froze, had to have an employee reboot. mailed Coralie's smart watch back at Post Office. car for oil change. ugh. so. many. people.

yesterday was my brothers birthday. he would've been 43. I posted this on FB yesterday, but then had a fun filled weekend with the first ever epic grandkids sleepover, so just now posting here. there was dino nuggies and chik-fil-a sauce for supper.

oodles and scoodles of snacks. a dance party. a tree house. the crab apple tree. running amok in the yard in the dark in our jammies with flashlights and lanterns. I know I'll never forget it.

life is a series of moments all stitched together. I'm grateful for the moments and memories we shared. especially today. miss you. ❤️

I will get my BB gun so fast you won't even see me, Edgar.

in her own way, many insisted, she had tried to do right by her kids, but mothering was not a skill she ever mastered...

I fell in ❤️ Yellowstone on vacation. and I fell in ❤️ with this clearance fabric at Walmart today, which is now pillowcases 😁

what I'm reading 📚...

Through a Blue Lens. documentary.

little girls don't dream of being a drug addicted prostitute. I sincerely believe that someone can do something right under your nose and you not catch on. you might stop and think a minute here and there, but come on. THAT can't be right. not the person YOU know. nope. just cause it looks bad doesn't mean it is bad. your spouse, sibling, parents, Aunt Mary, the weird keeps to himself neighbor. THEY just aren't capable. and you'd KNOW. unless you see it with your own eyes. and even then....nah. someone has to look out for them. any investigation can be costly...this one hit about $100million by 2007.

www.missingpeople.net

Missing Sarah book by Maggie de Vries.

Too cute not to share. Nothing like a nap with daddy before the chiefs game ❤️🧡🤍

from my reading.....

from my reading... insulting insults. possibly toooooo insulting???? and just sad, horrific things😞

1. the (fill in the blanks)brains were never much up to scratch at the best of times.

2. among these families of in-breds...

3. somewhat surprisingly all that ( fill in blank) says turns out to be mostly true. ( some people do have unbelievably bad childhoods and lives)

4. it's hard for me to tell you what was wrong with my family because I didn't know any different. that's how I was raised.

5. telling children they didn't deserve to be born and don't deserve to live.

6. the poorest of the poor in a lower- middle-class neighborhood.

7. the meanest man he ever knew.

8. such an extremely dysfunctional childhood

9. I dug a grave 🪦 for you last week... can I show it to you?

10. I am very concerned about (fill in the blank,) behavior, but I love him.

11. completely boring and a lot of shit, full of half-truths and numerous lies and crap.

12. half-wit.

13. extremely substantially built woman.

14. in her heyday no one could've said she was unattractive. today however ...life has chewed on her. ( we all have our own idea of beauty.)

15. a decent person who became a lost soul.

16. absolutely no class at all.

17. a fairly caustic sense of humor.

18. become trapped in their own way of thinking.

19. in my opinion, she's a lousy actress.

my 2nd year.....

been ranked 24th, 19th, and 21st today....the official first day of voting. (or was it yesterday???)