Posts Tagged ‘celeste’

Having a White Christmas in Texas is a mixed bag of good and bad. It's good for all the obvious reasons (snow! Christmas! etc!) but bad because, in Texas, snow doesn't just mean snow. It means ice, bad drivers, accidents, road closures, and travel delays and cancellations.
Christmas Eve, Celeste and I didn't quite make it [...]

I've managed to take one item off the list of possible Christmas plans and yet I've added another. So here it is, Christmas Eve, and I'm still making up my mind. Yeah, everything works out this way for me. It's a curse.
I'm not going to my brothers. That amounted to the most work for the [...]

(since I took the time to set it up, I decided I may as well test the new blog by email feature. So, this entry was sent via email.)
I've been up since 4am unable to sleep. On the plus side, I managed to get a lot done.
All of our clothes are packed. Except Socks, Underware, Shoes, [...]

This weekend was packed with fun, the highlight of which was the Texas State Fair on Saturday evening.
I'm not a big "Fair" person. It's not that I don't like it. I can just usually find just as much fun doing my own thing in a less crowded space for less money. And if I bring [...]

There is a certain peace that comes with the understanding that something I was afraid to try wouldn't have worked out anyway. With the sadness of loss comes the satisfaction of knowing.
I'm taking Celeste to the Texas State Fair this weekend. If I go on Friday it'll be a mad dash to pick her up [...]

I've got a 9am meeting this morning so I have to rush Celeste out the door. This will not be fun. No bath. Eat in the car. And my having to say no in regard to playing, reading books, and going for a walk will probably bring plenty of tears. But… if I can keep [...]

It's saddening and maddening to realize that, these days, nearly every frustration I face is merely a byproduct of a time and work based society without control over our own timeline. Our ancestors did not face these stresses. At one point did we become so dependent on progress that we failed to realize that what [...]

Last night I had a disturbing dream. This always seems to happen when I can't find a way to get comfortable in bed.
I was talking on the phone with Emily. Celeste and I had just been some place and Emily was mentioning that there was another place near where we were that served tea that [...]

(This is Texas Coast Day 4, Saturday, September 6th.)
The plan was to go to a park, then take a nap, then have lunch, then go to a petting zoo, then have dinner.
Breakfast was had but by the time everyone was ready to go, it was already time for lunch. So we went to get some [...]

(This is Texas Coast Day 3, Saturday, September 5th.)
We started the day out with some breakfast cooked at Justin's Mom's house where we were staying. After breakfast, we headed out to an Alligator Farm. We saw Crocodiles, Alligators, Cayman, Snakes and Turtles. A tour guide gave a nice long talk about the animals and even [...]