Bliss and Blair

Of all the quotes I looked through of his I felt like this one seems the most relatable to our current political climate. 

Just a good reminder that I feel like all moms need. Especially as we are about to start another busy week. 

About a week ago I started smelling something when I was in our kitchen nook. I could not for the life of me figure out what is was or where it was coming from. And it just got worse and worse. It finally occurred to me that I think something may have died under our house. We have a pier and beam foundation and it’s gotten very cold in Dallas. I thought maybe something got stuck or who knows?  Enter the exterminator. Bless this guys heart as he comes and crawls under our house when it’s 30 degrees outside. Brett and I were sitting in the living room while he was under there and you could hear the shuffling and movement. All of a sudden we hear this shout and a muffled, “it’s a live one!”  He finally comes back up and confirms that he did indeed find a live possum underneath our house but that wasn’t what the smell was. He thinks perhaps it had babies and one of them didn’t make it. The problem is that the smell is coming from a little section that he can’t get to. So what are our options?  1) live with it until it decomposes completely (which because of the cold could be up to 6 weeks) or 2) spend like $6000 to tear up our floors and go after it that way. Guess which option we chose?  

We went to our friends the LaRose’s house with kids this year to celebrate New Years. The kids all have fun playing together (and there’s usually a fairly low level of drama which is always good). They had fun putting on dances for us as this group loves to perform!