Grace in Small Things

• Jelly Beans
• 15 days left of hell
• white out
• My trusty staple remover
• rain

Goodbye Crankypants

One of my older clients died Friday- he was 71- and I’d just spoken to him the day before.  I wondered why he didn’t come in on Friday- but it’s tax season and I didn’t call- I was busy all day.  And I didn’t worry, because he was just dropping something off. His daughter stopped by and told us today.

We called him Crankypants because he was the first time we ever met him.  He had been the “boss” for a government branch for a long time, and had just retired.  His daughter was the one who referred him to us and warned us he was a crankypants.

He was always sweet as could be after that.  But we always called him crankypants.

Rest in peace, Crankypants, I thought you were a pretty nifty guy.

Grace in Small Things

• Jacqueline copied her CD of Taylor Swift’s Fearless for Emma
• Its a really good CD
• I was lulled to sleep last night by Zoe Keating
• The really nasty neighbors we had are gone- they got a 3 day and opted to leave immediately
• 16 days left of Tax season

Grace in Small Things

• Shepperd’s Pie
• Emma loves Taylor Swift and will sit and sing all of her songs over and over
• 17 days left of Tax Season
• Orange Creamsicle margarita’s
• Seeing Pretty Woman for the first time Friday night

Grace in Small Things

What’s not to love and adore?

In which I become a filmmaker

Once again The Bloggess has shown me the way and I have now made a film!
Unfortunately I can’t imbed it and wordpress doesn’t support the film format so you’ll just have to go and watch it.
It’s a touching reenactment of the morning Brian proposed to me.

Random Share

The number of times in a year we buy “cereal” (as in sugar coated unhealthy deliciousness in a box ) is equal to about 2. Actually, I think it’s probably less than that because we’ve lived together for almost 2 years and the first time I ever actually bought any was about a month ago.

We watched Diners, Drive ins and Dives and they made Captain Crunch French Toast and Brian wanted it and I was going to make it.  Except we ate it all.  Before I made any french toast!

So cue to a week later- we are buying rice, Emma and I, and the rice is in the same isle as the cereal and Emma starts saying that her Daddy needs Captain Crunch and is in fact going to die if we don’t take him some home like RIGHT NOW.  Because HER DADDY NEEDS IT!  She said it so sweetly and dramatically that I agreed with her. (How was I to argue with death?)

(There was a guy about my age in the isle who said “If I could be assured that my kid would be as cute as that I’d think about having one.  Cause she is cute!”  Emma is a charmer, that is for SURE!).

SO anyway, it is Spring Break at Boise State so Brian has had some free time on his hands this week and he noticed that GOSH, we are really running low on edible things (Its tax season, I haven’t done a shop in weeks) and he was hungry so he went to Fred Meyer and brought home some Cocoa Krispies.  And then I had a tiny bowl after dinner! Mmm. Dessert!

This morning I called him for a chat around 10 and I said “I sure am craving some more of those  Cocoa Krispies, will you bring me some please? “

And he totally did.

And I guess the whole point of this story is that if you are going to love someone and have them love you it is a really good thing if he does nice things for you like make the messy bed over the top of you when you are tired at night and bring you cocoa krispies on a Friday.

Grace in small things

• Today is Margarita day! (only for us ladies at my office, it’s kindof a 2 weeks left of crazy party kinda thing )
• Making small steps towards pulling this wedding together
• WANTING to get married!
• A biscuit with lemon curd on it!
• Sisters

Dear favorite Indian Restaurant

*Please don’t put raisins in your otherwise PERFECT rice pudding*

Thanks

Grace in small things

• Water
• My new cell phone
• A Realtor who just happens to be fantastic!
• The possibility of opening a new chapter in life
• Taylor Hicks