Want to know the bad part about letting your kids be readers?

Wait, wait, wait. Don't freak out on me yet. I'm not going to quit letting my kids read because it's not really a bad thing. But I got your attention, didn't I?

So, for real, here's what my problem is. My eight-year-old lately out of nowhere asks me "What does this word mean?" And words I have known forever suddenly are undefinable. Their meaning slips out of my head just like that. *snap*

To say author Betty Woods celebrated her anniversary with a bit of a bang is an understatement. The good news is, even when a party feels more like a rom-com, it can still be sweet and romantic. See what you think.

​   We celebrated our fiftieth wedding anniversary this spring. Probably not the way someone would write it in a romance novel, unless it’s a romantic comedy. Our official date is March 23. The kids originally envisioned renting a nice room, simple but elegant decorations and tables with white cloths until they found out how much all that would cost. Plan B our large backyard. But since we wanted an outdoor celebration, we waited until early April in hopes of better weather. It’s an understatement to say Texas weather is unpredictable. The high was in the eighties that afternoon. As you can see in the cake picture, Craig is wearing shorts. 

It's a super busy time of year, made even more so by the fact that I work for a tax firm who had a hard deadline last week. That's right. The tax season is finally winding down. But, it didn't happen easily.
I work from home most of the time (for that job), which means I have to have internet. And the Friday before deadline, our internet ... disappeared. We happened to be gone most of that day, to hang out with my parents and spend the last day of fall break doing fun fall things, so we didn't realize the extent of the problem until that evening.