Could Evansville, IN be on that list- PLEASE??🙏🏼 Netflix subscriber but would absolutely LOVE to see this in theaters in OCTOBER🎃🕷️🕸️ i would hire back up babysitters for my scheduled babysitters just to make sure we could #frightnightdatenight #evansvilleindiana
📚✏️🍎Such joy to watch my kids grow in their love of learning, surrounded by talented & passionate #teachers! I’m thankful to be given the opportunity to teach alongside them- including my son’s EoY #PreK program! A sweet & fun way to end the year! See my new students next fall! #preschoolteacher
Mom often mailed cards with little handwritten notes inside, telling her grandkids how much she enjoyed their play dates. Her last letter hangs on my refrigerator, held in place by a hand-painted, blue and purple bird magnet from a 2/$1 Dollar Tree craft kit Mom bought.
…. dumping overflowing bags of craft kits, baubles, art supplies, and kitschy holiday bric-a-brac all over my kitchen table. (“Let these babies make messes, Cassie. It’ll wash out or use it as a rag.”) The sheer volume of clutter would make my palms sweat.
It was this eccentricity that ensured Mom was a natural Nana. When bringing over her own ingredients to bake in my kitchen (she used Country Crock, I used real butter- it was a whole thing), she would also clean out DG, Big Lots, and Ollie’s….
Mom’s questionable garden trinket collection is what eventually softened me to indulge in my own children’s fairy village build. They enjoy it and I try not to look directly at it- just as I did with Mom’s overstimulated yard.
When Nick and I moved into our new home, she begged to take in this abandoned, gaudy Ceramic Boy Peeing statue the former owners left. (I don’t know why she asked. I would’ve been grateful had she quietly stolen it- sparing me the knowledge that it had ever darkened my doorstep.)
Mom loved her unsightly lawn treasures so much that I compared it to Ariel’s obsessive sea-junk-hoarding situation, informing her that family intervention was imminent. Storming past me & invoking my full name, she placed another 3/$5 yard fairy in her flower bed and refilled her 7th bird feeder.
Fitting that she was born in springtime. She loved feeding birds, planting flowers, digging weeds- and cleaning out Lowe’s garden section by littering her yard with oversized gnomes, garish windmill “art” fixtures and outlandish pink flamingos.
❄️🫧 The kids did a pretty good job capturing each other blowing bubbles in the snow! I had to delete 173 photos due to their happy trigger fingers, but here are their 5 usable shots! #winterbubbles#winterwonderland#snow
❤️🍕🍓✝️ Chocolate covered strawberries, pizza, & books encouraging living out our faith through loving courage! We learned Sojourner Truth was a fellow Methodist who believed God called her to be a preacher & advocated for abolition of slavery, women's rights. #valentinesday#blackhistorymonth
