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Amazing Things About My Office

  • The giant windows
  • The original brick walls
  • The fireplace
  • Open space big enough for my giant calendar
  • The plants
  • The sunshine
  • The large window sills that serve as shelves
  • The closet that is a safe
  • The ability to see outside
  • Not just one window but three
  • Seeing everyone who walks by
  • The extra storage closet
  • The thermostat
  • Did I mention the windows?

Thirty Amazing Things About My Son Who Turns 30 Today

  • He is deeply empathetic and genuinely cares about people
  • He’s a super involved father
  • He understands science and math and the world on a conceptual level
  • He isn’t afraid to speak up for someone who needs it
  • He accepts everyone exactly as they are
  • He is married to his highschool sweetheart
  • He always says sweet things about her when she isn’t around
  • He is adventerous
  • There isn’t a food he won’t try
  • While visiting somewhere new, he refuses to eat at any restaurant he could go to at home
  • He’s an excellent cook
  • He reads to his daughters
  • He loves his grandparents and communicates with them regularly
  • He’s calm under pressure
  • He never went through a “my parents embarrass me” phase
  • On a group outing at the age of 10, he saved his sack lunch to give to the homeless man we’d passed on the way there
  • He’s always been my video game buddy
  • He is super creative
  • His skills as a D&D DM rival those of any fiction novelist
  • He is musical
  • He has a freaky good ear for sounds and tones and can hear things nobody else can hear
  • For example, if he hears loose change drop on the ground, he can tell you exactly how much it is
  • He can fix things
  • His sense of humor cracks me up
  • He is kind
  • He has the ability to look beyond the surface level of any given situation
  • He has a broad perspective of life in general
  • He loves his family with everything in him
  • He memorizes random and ridiculous things
  • He is the best kid ever (except for Jesus)

All About April

  • Birthstone: Diamond
  • Average temp in Iowa: 49.3 degrees
  • Named for the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite
  • My son’s birthmonth
  • The sinking of the Titanic
  • Flower: Daisy or Sweet Pea
  • Earth Day
  • Passover
  • Autism Awareness Month
  • “Houston, we have a problem.”
  • Brings May Flowers

Undone

Unlocked
Unwound
Unlikely
Unbound
Unworried
Unrushed
Unfazed
Unhushed
Unsheathed
Unstunned
Undressed
Undone

April is National Poetry Month
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