Every year Sennet’s school has their “balloon drop.” The kids are given a small balloon and told that they have to fill it with water and then build some kind of holder or nest or vehicle for it. Then they bring the balloon back to school and the staff take them up to the fourth […]

Stacie posted this on Facebook, I thought it worthy of the blog too: “Sennet brought this drawing into me last night b/c I was crying and he said that ‘the world is better when little brown and black and white kids play together.’ There is hope.”

Well, the election didn’t turn out how we hoped, nor how we thought it would. Depression was the mood of the house. After we put Sennet to bed last night, he knew we were pretty devastated, Stacie had tears in her eyes. He came down about a half hour later and gave her this drawing […]

A week ago Sennet and I tried to go to the swimming pool, but by the time we got there it was sold out. It was raining like crazy, so we had to come up with an alternate plan that didn’t involve the outdoors. I remembered a pottery/ceramic studio where you could go and paint […]

Another picture Sennet painted at school and the teachers transcribed his explanation. “An animal and a birthday cake with a horse. I made it for my mommy.”

I don’t have any memory of coloring Easter eggs as a child. My granny and papaw (my stepdads parents) were really wonderful to me as a child.  Unlike their son, they treated me like their own from day one and really loved and spoiled me.  I really regret not staying in contact with them because […]