Random Musings

 My favorite text from the family group chat last night: I only heard the nurse say 8 lbs. I couldn't hear the rest because there was a baby crying in the room. Welcome to our family Anderson Jeremiah White!!! My parents got to visit at the hospital this afternoon. My brother Andy got to give him his first bottle. So thankful for this photo...for so many reasons. My sister-in-law Amie is such a trooper. So thankful for her and happy for her.

 Today I opened the portal (that reads as strange as it sounds) for my elections assignment.  It lists how many elections each Chief Judge (the person in charge of the polling place) has worked for my zone, then it listed how many elections I have worked.  37 That's an awful lot of elections. It sounds larger than it seems. Another wow that happened today was that we stopped at Crumbl cookies. I have heard so many positive things from so many people about these amazing, but very expensive cookies. For the first time in my life, I didn't finish a cookie. Bobby says he prefers the cookies from KFC to those. I'm not sure they're THAT bad, but they don't surpass Chik-fil-A's cookies or the Lofthouse brand in the deli at FoodLion. For the price of four cookies, I could have gotten a dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I can't decide if I'm more bothered that I didn't LOVE them, or that I paid so much for something that's just meh. Live and learn. Today is m...

 My brain still cannot wrap around the fact April is quickly marching by. The last week of March/first of April we were in Alabama trying to help my brother get ready for the move. The first day I unpacked a few boxes and did a little cleaning. There was one box labeled Kitchen: plastics. I was surprised at its weight, and even more shocked when I saw how packaged it was. I opened it to find an eagle. (My brother is an Auburn fan; my sister-in-law an Alabama grad.) Bobby said it needed to be visible. I was more concerned about it getting broken with all the work going on. Andy laughed at its placement and said he liked it, but he doubted Amie would. Is it still on its perch?   Days two and three were spent mudding, sanding, and painting baseboards. Day 2 of the baseboards Dad and Andy worked on the living room and started the dining room on day two. Day three, our last day, my sister and brother-in-law came to help as well. Dad alternated between helping me with baseboards an...