I wasn't expecting this. At all.

Y'all... sending support and appreciation and awe with my sincere thanks to ALL of the members of the Search and Rescue Teams in Venezuela. Thank you to their families and loved ones, too. Someone over here needs to cool it with the onion chopping, too. With a quickness! 🥹❤️‍🩹🫶🏾

🤦🏾‍♀️ Just texted my kiddo... Gracie da G. has been found. She is to allow her team to secure her so she can be transported "home" and NOT interfere. She is not happy. Lordt, why am I afraid that bail money might be required?! 😫

Gracie, the giraffe with the rounded ears that's missing in the Texas Hill Country? Kiddo just gave me a biology lesson including who all of her cousins are. (Kinda figured the camel, but not the okapai). She also thinks she should help her stay hidden. Who's child is this??? 😵‍💫🤦🏾‍♀️

👋🏾 Aging will force us to confront and otherwise interact with a multitude of things. Both in the physical and mental realms. Sometimes, they intertwine. Deciding who or what I allow to bother me has been a challenge. Realizing that being kind and caring does not preclude my "round filing" 1/2

👋🏾 Happy Father's Day to Dads everywhere. Thank you for your love and guidance and support and patience with us. For stepping in and stepping up, we salute you - especially today. Missing my Dad 😇🪽 today. I truly hope approves of the human I try my best to be. Love you, Dad 🥹❤️‍🩹.

The "scream I scrempt" upon learning that a new Minion movie arrives on 1 July 2026! Yayuh!!! 😆😂

👋🏾 Lissen... 👇🏾 I am "seasoned" (old), so reading AND writing in cursive is easy for me. Accordingly, I will NOT be "dumbing down" my vocabulary either. Lastly, leave Rep Crockett alone, Texas. She owes the midterm elections no more than that which she chooses to give. 🤔🤨

👋🏾 Weekin (little to medium sized children) will amaze me for always. The things they say, do, and their reasoning is unparalleled. Hold your inner weekin close, y'all ☺️. Enjoy your day over your way! 🤗

And I just got another doggo to protect. My furniece's fren Lume... she weighs less than 4 lbs, but has perfected the art of escaping! Her "dog shot" was plastered all over her city's animal rescue page and everything. I am much too much of an antique for this dog foolery. 😖😫🤦🏾‍♀️🥰

👋🏾 Being right and doing the right thing are not the same. One requires intricate knowledge of a particular subject, situation, or circumstance. The other is based on the ability to be empathetic, caring, and kind. Both things are necessary, just one more than others. Enjoy your day! 🤗

Chicago Area Family? Y'all okay? I just saw reporting about your weather today and Jiminey Cricket 🤯! Please be safe 🙏🏾.

👋🏾 No matter how hard we try, some one some where will find fault with us in some way. It's just the course things take. Our role is to decide how we respond. Example: the "person" 🤨😠 crowding me at the grocer's got a "not today" face instead of a body slam. 😇☺️ Enjoy your day!

Just read an article from NASA announcing the ARTEMIS III Crew for the next moon mission. I am happy for and proud of each of them! This is an all male crew. No idea why, and honestly? I am not concerned. Sometimes, we ladies do our best work unheard and unseen. Until we have to be. ☺️🫶🏾

👋🏾 My sweet fren Bugger Boi crossed the bridge several years ago. I am still not ready to find a new one, BUT then there is my furniece HQ. I am waiting on her morning phone call before she gets to "school". And her mom still thinks she is my favorite niece...🙄😉😂 Enjoy your day! 🤗

👋🏾 Every now and then, leaving something or someone "on pause" is exactly what is needed. For your own self preservation and peace of mind. Know your worth. Enjoy your day over your way! 🤗

From the minds and mouths of our weekin 🤦🏾‍♀️. To her mom (after being asked why she wasn't wearing her glasses), "I just don't feel like seeing today." Same, Weekin. Same. 🩷

👋🏾 If at any point a "successful" interaction requires "mental gymnastics" on any level? Perhaps it is a circumstance best serviced by walking away. 🤔 We matter. ALL of us. We got this, too. Enjoy your day over your way! 🤗

👋🏾 Sometimes, memories are all that we have. Thinking of you today - and all that was "us" - with lots of love, Sis 😇❤️‍🩹. Enjoy your day over your way. Hugs 🤗

👋🏾 There is more space outside our minds than on the inside. Whatever is giving us grief, or creating turmoil, or upset within? Give it to the universe. Write it down. Speak it aloud. Sing it in the bath or shower. Just let it out. We got this. Enjoy your day over your way! Hugs 🤗 🫶🏾

👋🏾 Honoring... Pride Month. You will always have an ally and supporter in me. Let your truest light shine please. Always! Black Music Month. Everyone that contributes all that it requires to share this genre with us, I applaud you! Enjoy your day over your way. Hugs 🤗

👋🏾 Once you find your personal peace, guard it. With everything in your spirit. Guard. It. Love is patient and kind, but it doesn't require you to be a pushover. What other people think of you is not your business. Be the very best you that you can be. That's enough. Enjoy your Saturday ☺️🫶🏾.

👋🏾 Hey Y'all. Sometimes, the absolute very best gift(s) you can give to yourself are reflection, consideration, understanding, and acceptance. Doesn't matter what the actions relate to - simply that the focus is on ourselves. Enjoy your day over your way! 🤗

Y'all, Bert and Berda Bird were not having it. Any of it. Me? I was only refreshing the mulch around my shrub, while discussing their loudness. That did not go well. Needless to say, they will continue to do as they please. Don't mind me, I just pay the bills over here is all. 😖😫

👋🏾 Morning 🌄 Y'all. Yep, we made it to another Friday. Please enjoy your day over your way! For some reason, Bert and Berta Bird started their day really early this morning. While I appreciate the wake up, it's still dark outside. We will be discussing this later. 🫩😮‍💨

👋🏾 Happy Thursday, Y'all. Wishing you a grand day over your way. Enjoy!

And Georgia Family? Thank you for showing up yesterday! Eyes on November now.

👋🏾 Morning 🌄 Y'all. Please enjoy your Wednesday over your way. Being kind or gracious or extending courtesy (especially when it's really difficult to) is important to me. My life has not always been the best, but extension of these qualities to me made all the difference. 🤗🥹❤️‍🩹

I cast my vote yesterday in the runoff election. I was surprised to see as many people as I did there (especially not that springer spaniel running toward me that the kind man behind me cornered 😳). Not sure what this means, but I am encouraged. 🤔

👋🏾 Morning 🌄 Y'all. Enjoy your Tuesday over your way.

👋🏾 Morning 🌄 Y'all. Please have a marvelous new week Monday over your way! Completing my follow up voting plan today. Texas Family, I hope you will join me to do so with your own. Take good care with the weather, too! Hugs 🤗

Y'all... Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois - all Family in the path of the latest of the latest round(s) of interesting weather? Please be safe. Texas Family - wildfires, active shooters, high winds. Goodness gracious 🤦🏾‍♀️. Please stay aware and alert, too. Take good care please.

👋🏾 Morning 🌄 Y'all. Please enjoy your "3 Letter Sunday" over your way. Going to "read and read and read" over this way. Well, might take a nap at some point, too. We shall see 😉. Hugs 🤗

👋🏾 Morning 🌄 Y'all. Enjoy your Saturday over your way! Hugs 🤗

👋🏾 Happy Friday 😊, Y'all. Please have a fabulous day over your way! Thank you so much for your kindness on yesterday. Appreciate all of you. Hugs 🤗

👋🏾 Hey Y'all! Hope your Thursday is going really well. A bit frazzled over here, but nothing I cannot handle. Hugs 🤗

👋🏾 Morning 🌄 Y'all. Please enjoy your Wednesday over your way. Hugs 🤗

👋🏾 Morning 🌄 Y'all. Enjoy your Tuesday over your way!

👋🏾 Morning 🌄 Y'all. Happy New Week over your way. Hope your Monday is a good one. Enjoy!

Lissen... I keep hearing that Mother's Day is the one day of the year when the least crimes are committed. The insinuation is that it is because moms are enjoying the day vs criming. Yep, you know I told the kiddo that I could address that. She says "Or not, ma'am 🤨." Never winning. 🤦🏾‍♀️

👋🏾 Morning 🌄 Y'all. Today is an extra special "Three Letter Sunday" as it is Mother's Day. Wishing you and those in your circle a fantastic day 💐🤩🩷. Hugs 🤗

👋🏾 Morning 🌄 Y'all. Saturday means extra treatos and lubs for my catto and doggo frenz, please 🐱🐾🐶🥰. Be good to yourselves, too. Hugs 🤗

👋🏾 Morning 🌄 Y'all. Friday. Finally. Happy Weekend over your way. Enjoy!

👋🏾 Morning 🌄 Y'all. Let's do Thursday, shall we?

👋🏾 Morning 🌄 Y'all. Enjoy your Wednesday over your way ☺️!

Y'all... thank you for being so kind to me this past week or so. Appreciate you all more than you can know. Still a bit iffy over here, but to borrow a phrase from someone here? "A glass of water half full gets really heavy if you carry it long enough." Divesting myself of some TODAY ☺️. Hugs 🤗

👋🏾 Morning 🌄 Y'all 😊.

👋🏾 Happy New Week Monday, Y'all. Hope your day (and week) are amazing! Hugs 🤗

👋🏾 Morning 🌄 Y'all. Enjoy your Sunday over your way.

👋🏾 Morning 🌄 Y'all. Happy Saturday to you. Please hold your pet frenz a bit closer today and share extra treatos 🐈🐾🐶😍. And to that guy in the grocer's today who deliberately grabbed my cart and tried to act innocent? Tell your frenz that looks are very deceiving... we fights over here. 😤😡