Response

(This is not addressed to any family member. It is in response to a comment.)

Ooh, good one. Thought you were headed for a gracious acknowledgement that you don't know it all, but you took a nice turn to superior sarcasm at the end, with an equally nice little knife in my back, given the comment to which you were responding. After all, if you can watch four kids without a tragedy happening then no tragedy should ever happen to anyone who's just paying attention like they should be. So that time one of my grandkids wandered off: I guess I wasn't watching over them, in the world according to your common sense? That is your implication, so just say it outright: there's no way a kid can wander off if the adult in charge is at all competent: therefore, I was being an inattentive grandparent.

Dude, there's only one reason I'm cutting you any slack at all over this.

Discretion

When you want to cheer because someone else said what you've been thinking for over a decade, but you know that you will always be on the wrong side of the balance sheet, and that still counts for something.

Maybe I'm really just as vapid as the rest of the world.

A birthday successfully celebrated

The cake was delicious. I needn't have worried. The vanilla buttercream frosting was nice with it. A nice turnout of friends and family; although oldest daughter was busy prepping their camper for the weekend, I went and got her younger two of our grandchildren. It was a nice time, even if the dinner plans didn't work out as we hoped.

Happy birthday

Well, I hope that leaving the unfrosted cakes uncovered overnight doesn't result in them being stale. It's going to be yummy if I didn't ruin it.

I give thanks to God today for blessing my life with you, for the opportunity to love you and be loved by you. I thank Him for the supportive wife, mom, and grandma that you are.

Sorry I wasn't able to get more of the house squared away for you. What I did in the kitchen - the cake and the cleaning up - was all that I had time for.

I pray that God blesses you with a really great day, full of fun and joy and friends and family.

(Oh, did I forget to say:)  I Love You!

Today's words: Understatement edition

litotes /LYE-tuh-teez/ - understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary.

I love learning a word that describes something I do all the time. This one's not bad!

meiosis /mye-OH-sis/ -  the presentation of a thing with underemphasis especially in order to achieve a greater effect.

I was, of course, familiar with this from of cellular reproduction, but not with this sense of the word. This one is okay, too!

Relay for Life

Was so glad to go out and support our friends, the Heils, at Kettering's Relay for Life last night. Continuing to pray for them as they deal with the latest bout in Andy's fight against cancer.