Let's build something together!

That is one of my favorite slogan's (Or is that a tagline? Over a year removed from a design firm, and I can no longer remember). It belongs to Lowe's, although I am more of a Home Depot gal. But suffice it to say if someone handed me a $5,000 gift card to Home Depot (or Lowe's), I would be ecstatic. If I had $10,000 to spend, you could hear my shouts of joy from miles away. The things I could do with that money. Well, the things I could have Brian do with that money anyway.

I love walking around Home Depot and admiring the fancy bathroom sinks and tubs. I look at the lighting and think about where I would put each fixture. I touch textured and colorful tiles and wistfully look at the fancy kitchen cabinets. I admire the various carpet styles and blinds. I look at the fancy front-loading washer and wonder what it must be like to have a steam dryer. I even look longingly at the vacuum cleaners because I can no longer buy a replacement filter for my eight year old model (who knew my dirt picker upper was such a forgotten old lady).

Forget 10k; let me have $50,000 to spend at that store!

But enough of my fantasies (though I am pretty sure many of you share some of them). Today Brian, Jordan, and I went to Home Depot for a kid's workshop. Until recently, I had no idea HD did this sort of thing the first Saturday of every month, but I am glad I discovered it. The projects are pretty simple to put together, with some glue and a hammer and nails. And because there aren't a lot of pieces, I bet even I could have helped Jordan if Brian had not been there. Best of all, today's craft was useful and cute, a school bus pencil holder. Jordan definitely enjoyed herself; she got better with a hammer as she kept pounding (Brian's fingers unfortunately took two hits). She was so adorable in the apron she gets to keep, and she even seemed kind of proud of the pin she received after she completed the project. I highly recommend this activity for kids who are somewhere near Jordan's age, which is almost 7; I think the recommended age is 5 to 10. And you just show up sometime between 9 and 12; no need to register in advance.

Lowe's offers a similar workshop, and I already signed Jordan up for next weekend's, which is a bug box. I am not as jazzed about this craft, since Jordan has a bug catcher, but I think she will have fun. One thing to note: You must sign up in advance for Lowe's workshops, and you (the parent) must sign a waiver. Hopefully there won't be power tools involved! I am hoping we can make it to HD's September workshop, which is a football display. I am not entirely sure what that is, but if it involves a football, then how bad can it be?

Let's build something together!

What a year 2021 has been (Day 7)

I have almost no words for what happened yesterday at the Capitol. Protesting is one thing (though I truly think it is and has been time to move on). But to storm the Capitol? A friend on Facebook said, quite simply, " Almost 20 years ago a group of people on an airplane sacrificed themselves to protect the Capitol. How far we have fallen!" Indeed. And, yes, it IS storming the Capitol. I have seen numerous videos of people knocking down barricades/fences, pushing police officers, and breaking windows and climbing through them. That is beyond protesting. And even if a protestor did not do those things, if they followed those seditionists past those barricades and into the building, they are just as guilty. I did not support the violent protests this summer that resulted in damages to businesses and public property (I was in full support of the actual protests). But I also acknowledged as a white person, I cannot truly put myself in the position of a black person who is angry a...

Why do they stand up there and say that when they are just lying?

That extra-long title is courtesy of my nine-year-old and was something she uttered during "Say Yes to the Dress" on Friday evening. I watch very little reality TV, but I make an exception for this show because I like to look at the dresses. And sometimes, the stories are heart-warming. Typically at the end of the show, a snippet of a wedding is aired. In this particular show, a woman who was confined to a wheelchair was exchanging vows with her fiance. After the two of them finished, J made her comment. I asked her what she meant as I must have been on the computer while the TV was on, and she explained that because so many people just get divorced, why do they even say "as long as we both shall live"? That is tough one, kid. I tried with what I thought was a sound explanation: Most of the people who get married truly believe they will be together the rest of their lives, but sometimes it just doesn't work out. But if you don't think that you will be ...

Disenfranchised Republican

When I went to vote this a.m., I handed my ID to the guy, since my last name can be tricky. He looked for several minutes in the box with the cards. Then he asked if I was in the right place (there is another area in this room, for people in a different neighborhood, I presume). And I told him that this is where I have always voted. He then reviewed the bound paper list, found my name, but could not figure out why it was there, yet not in the box with the cards. Then he realized what was going on and rather exclaimed, "Oh, you are a Republican!" One of the ladies sitting next to him said, "Oh, one of those." I said I assumed they had not seen too many of "my kind" that morning, and she said I was the third. Then, being the open person I am, I eagerly said I was coming to rock the vote and vote for Ron Paul. One of the women commented that she liked some of the things he had stood for, perhaps to try to make me feel as if I was not voting for a terrible per...

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