Guest Photographer today :)

I wish I could take credit for this cool shot, but I didn't take it. One of my students who has been working hard on portraits lately took it. The Photograper's name is Asia she has some other good work on the Musing page. I had a great day today, and while I will never get as far off the ground as Olivia, I was emotionally and spiritually there today.

Turning point!

After getting blood drawn today, Dirk felt well enough to go over to our old campus (IUS) and talked to an old professor about future options. He had more purpose and hope in his steps today than I have seen in a long time.

That time of month.....

Bills and balancing the checkbooks! It is also worse because I am just now starting to work on the taxes for us and the business too. This is the first year I have had to do this at all! Mom has done the business in the past and Dirk has done our personal returns. YUCK!!!!!

This is something I needed to learn a long time ago, I just kept putting it off. Now I am in a sink or swim situation. I will swim and everything will be fine, I may even figure out a way to enjoy it :)

dances and dancers at Starlight Competition

Sorry all these are here. I thought I put them in leftovers, but I don't have the time or the energy to switch them over right now. Hope you enjoy. I also hope to get back on track today.

Saturday's Dance Competition

The tired audience after watching 11 straight hours of dance.

The tired feet after 11 straight hours of dancing.

Kayleigh and Grampy.....

I know this is a second posting for the day, but it feels like the leak was at least a day ago! Right after I posted, I got a call that my dad was back in the hospital. So that is where I spent my evening. I had to post this shot as a partner to the one with Kayleigh and Dirk's dad below. If I posted the color version, you would notice that my dad actually has the same color eyes too. I knew his were blue, Dirk's were blue and Kayleigh's were blue, but I didn't realize until today that they all have the same exact shade of reflective soft blue-grey with violet flecks.

Water and Sun....

I woke up to a clogged toilet upstairs, and by lunch (before the plumber could arrive) this is what my dowstairs ceiling looked like. Under it are two buckets half full of water.

Right after I took that picture I walked up to the library and saw the sunlight dancing on this ceiling, it was making a rainbow too, but it was so faint it wouldn't show up on my camera.