Today was my Mama's birthday. My dad's birthday is coming up on Tuesday. My mom is two days older than him. They're both 61 this year. My brother, Eric had a little party for them at his house. I wasn't feeling so good because of my period and the late night i had last night. My mawmaw made it out. She says she wants to buy my car but I'm not so sure she needs it. She almost ran over my Dad and she rolled into my brother, Scott's truck.

This is my Mama




This is my Dad (and little Gracie)




and here is the offspring, kids and grand kids


I guess most families want these kinds of pictures. Someday there's going to be the great grand kids, I'm sure.

My stomach is killing me. As soon as i got to slim's last night my monthly visitor came a calling. It was a fun little party. Slim bought me a bottle of captain. I'll post some pics later. The class of 99 was totally represented. there were rubber band wars and people fooling around in the bed room. I was talking to tria about trees, their roots, trunks and branches or underworld, earth and heaven.

So slim's having a BBQ in my honor, awesome.

I taught Kiah how to wipe her own ass this morning. I guess it feels empowering to learn things sometimes. Lea is not afraid of me anymore as you will see below. the first day I was back here I crawled across the floor to her and growled. she started screaming her lungs out. i read to Kiah and Gracie from the rotting goddess, the origin of the witch in classical antiquity I'm sure my Catholic sister in law loved that(she was a good sport). Kiah picked out a section on dismemberment, one of my areas of fascination. I was like, you go girl, snap snap snap.