A Leg Grows in C Minor

I always want to write at the end of the year, mostly because I start to feel a sense of guilt from not writing more throughout the year, but also because I start getting nostalgic and reflective. So here's another random post! (Simon isn't doing anything crazy at the moment anyway, besides learning to speak.) America has been getting a bit scary as of late. Extreme Right Wingers are trying to take away our rights and turn us into a backwards thinking nation. Religion has a lot to do with it, and fear. Terrorists from ISIS recently bombed the hell out of Paris, and America responded by refusing to take in Syrian refugees. Pretty ridiculous. And cops are being gun nuts and shooting (mostly) black people left and right, which is also ridiculous, but sadly taken as given at this point. So with all the recent race talk, it made me think of ways to get people to be NOT racist. And I don't mean stereotypical. Because all humans think in stereotypes, and that's ok. When I me

Well this is embarrassing. I'm not sure I've ever gone THIS long without writing, and I was doing so well in recent years. My son has gone from wiggling, to crawling, to walking, to running, to climbing, to destroying, so it's been a bit hard to keep up. I'm going to try to do a couple different posts relatively soon, while I have a small window (for whatever reason). I will write about my life, but I want to make a fun post about numbers, to get away from all the baby posts as of late. My grandma Minnie is turning 95 tomorrow, and we had a surprise birthday party for her last weekend. This woman is like a celebrity to me. She birthed 6 children, 24 grandchildren, 44 great grandchildren, and 27 great-great grandchildren. She still tries new things all the time. She's been crocheting, playing piano, and playing card games for years, but in recent memory she has taken drawing classes, driven a 4 wheeler, gone kayaking, and I'm sure done other things that I didn&