KattyWilly

Tonight I got an incredible compliment. I was driving Lindsey
home from band practice at her boy friends house, when the cell phone
rang. It was Chelsey letting me know that the pumpkin bread we
were baking was done and she wanted to know what we were having for
dinner. I figured she wanted to have pumpkin bread.  Lindsey
wasn’t hungry so I asked Chelsey she wanted to have mac and
cheese. She said we didn’t have any, that she looked earlier,
which was while I was out (I was at the grocery store). I told her that being
the Mr. Mom that I am I had bought some so we did have some. She said that “I guess your getting to be a pretty good mom.”
Thanks Chelsey, I needed that,

This song just about says it perfectly.  Thanks to Halley for posting it.  Now I have to go get that CD off iTunes.

We went out last night and watched the lunar eclipse, at least until the clouds covered it up.  We got to see all the way up to totality and then the clouds moved in.

I’m going through my inbox cleaning out old mail and found a bunch of emails to myself of links to different sites I wanted to write about.  Seems like I don’t have enough time to do that so here are a couple of links:

http://www.agathism.com/

http://www.oprah.com/rys/journeys/rys_journeys_20000328.jhtml

May be time for a new computer, this one keep crashing on me.

Not sure if I have posted this one before or not.  I think I got this link from a photo related weblog, but I don’t remember which one.  It is a very interesting use of photos, sound and imaging effects.  It is done by Jonathan Clark and is a series of photos from cemeteries during the four seasons, and is titled After Life.

A site that finds cool tools.

“Here are my recommendations for cool tools. I include books, gadgets, software, videos, maps, hardware, materials, websites or gear that are extraordinary, little-known, or reliably handy for an individual or small group.“

Speaking of Badgers,  this photo is from back in September when the Badgers were visiting the Illini.  My friend Liz sent it to me.

I may need to show this to the family at Thanksgiving.  Badgers and Mushrooms.

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”

Henri Nouwen

The hardest part of my grieving process is that the person that matches this description is the one that I’ve lost.