They're Creepy And They're Kooky

 Do you recognize my title? It is the first line of the Addams Family theme song. Did any of you ever watch it? It has gotten popular again, with an emphasis on Wednesday (the daughter). There is even Wednesday cereal now. 

Anyway, Jazz was in The Addams Family school play last weekend. Of course we were in the front row.

Here is Morticia

Reading a book to Pugsley

Wednesday and her boyfriend

Uncle Fester with some of the cast

And of course, our Jazz

I barely recognized her in all this makeup. She posed for us in her costume after the play. Gosh, she looks 30 years old!

But here she is after changing on the way home. This is more like it!

“Don’t torture yourself, Gomez—that’s my job.”

Grocery Flowers

 Our grocery store has a lovely bunch of spring flowers for sale. Here are just a few.

This color was deep and unusual.

These looked like some kind of preserved flowers in globes.

These had a cherry on top! 

Do you ever buy flowers at the grocery store?

To fully absorb the sun's power, flowers must be open and vulnerable.

Lava & Mazes

 I found something really cool to put in the girls' Easter baskets this year. They are two different kinds of pens.

The first ones are like a lava lamp, but inside a pen!

The next kind is a maze inside the pen with a little ball that you have to tilt from one end to the other.

“What I didn’t realize was how many doors the act of writing unlocks, as if my Dad’s old fountain pen wasn’t really a pen at all, but some strange variety of skeleton key.” 

– Stephen King

Power-Ful

 I'm back! Well, maybe you didn't notice I have been gone awhile and not visiting. We lost all our power and internet over the weekend. I have hundreds of e-mails to go through now, but am so grateful for my computer back! I will see you shortly and catch up!

Sunday Sunset

 

"Every sunset is also a sunrise. It all depends on where you stand."

Karl Schmidt

The Blue Pinwheels

 Every April, I see blue pinwheels around town. April is child abuse prevention month. Pinwheels represent childlike whimsy and lightheartedness and the vision for a world where all children grow up happy, healthy, and safe.

Blue pinwheels serve as a hopeful, highly visible symbol that raises awareness, sparks conversations, and reminds communities to protect children.

  “Kindness can be the first safe place.”

Handy

 Ever run into a dog with human hands? Kind of half dog half human.

“Some say he was a man who bargained poorly, and the curse left only his hands to remind him of what he lost.”