Blessed

Nathan blessed Dominic in church today and little man was very reverent. This time, I remembered to take pictures (unlike Christmas, but I suppose I blame that on being really sleepy after a very rough night). Mom and Dad Elkins are up here for the week for the holidays and to spend time with their …

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My First Elkins Christmas

Last year, Nathan and I shared our first Christmas, but we were a few days short of being married so I slept at my parents, then drove over to our condo to exchange gifts. It was so nice this year to wake up next to him for our first married Christmas. I could go on …

Thanksgiving Confession: I Ate Sugar

You knew, didn’t you? You knew that I couldn’t quit sugar during the holidays. But you didn’t say anything. You just waited… knowing. I ate sugar on Thanksgiving. So kill me. And do you know that it tasted delicious? Deeeeee.lish.us. It is NOT physically possible to turn down Grumma’s pumpkin pie. And Maren made pear …

Larrie’s DEEP Thoughts On Phones

I just read an article summarizing some info on a published report from a bunch of scientists regarding their findings on cell-phone radiation risk. (Wow, that sentence was chalk full of prepositional phrases.) This is the article, for any inquiring minds: Details emerge on possible cell-phone radiation risk. Basically, they say that there is a …

Episode 79: 15 Seconds To Save A Tree

There are six garbage cans in our office. Two for each of us (which means, for all you people out there that struggle with math, there are three of us sharing our office): one black one for garbage and one blue one for recycling. The recycling cans have stickers on them to tell us what …

Simply an Account of the Weekend

I need to make new headers for these entries. It’s not so much Larrie’s World anymore as it is The World O’ The Elkins, or something. Turns out, I am selfish with my blog headers. Honestly. Having a sick husband is no fun. It’s no fun because, when it’s the flu, there’s really little I …

Happy Birthday Hubby!

We celebrated Nathan’s birthday on Friday. He started his day by getting up at the butt-crack-of-dawn (can somebody tell me the origin of that phrase?) to get ready for another fabulous day of teaching and I am pretty sure that I made him a lunch (it’s hard to remember anything before 7:00 am). I spent …

Larrie’s Old Emails

Turns out, I don’t do a particularly splendid job of cleaning out my gmail inbox. So today, I decided to look back at some of the emails that are still sitting in my inbox. One thing I have managed, though, is to at least read things. Currently, there is one unread message and it’s junk …

Ode to Clark

Yesterday, I celebrated Father’s Day with my family. We combined it with a birthday party for my niece as well and nobody minded sharing the celebration. That meant more presents to open and birthday cake for all of the fathers. I have a Dad who on paper is pretty amazing. You can easily Google him …

The Ideal Sock Drawer

Enter the caption contest now! It’s so exciting isn’t it? If you need the rules for this supposed-to-be-weekly contest, click here: Caption Contest Rules Shmules. Last Contest’s Winner: is Dad. What a great pun! (I’m going to pretend it was said with a Scottish accent, too. Makes everything funnier.) And now… I would like everybody …