It was a simple question. "What's all that?"

The answer, "It's Rachel's life in jewelry", bounced off of me initially.

Then I got to looking...

Apparently, over the years, all of Rachie's jewelry-like stuff was worn for a while and then for various reasons ended up in a "drawer", which probably took several different forms, also, over the years. I think this is the current "form". It was all dumped out on the kitchen counter...

And sorted, sorta...

Not sure how this ended up there but I suspect maybe Bekah...

The sorting progressed...

The intention, I was told, was that this stuff was going to go to

Emma and Katy, but it had to be divied up.

I think this will become Emma's, but I could be wrong...

Anyway, everyone seems happy, and isn't that what matters?

Ian is Here!

Raising three girls hasn't really prepared me for a two year old boy. There was Mitchell, of course, but he was...well, he was not Ian. We've had a lot of fun though. A ride on Papa's four-wheeler. We also went to Lowe's and we went to the coffee shop and we swung by the funeral home. I had to show him off, you know.

Cartoons playing in the background once seemed a real distraction from my reading or internet surfing but I've discovered a new appreciation for them. Ian actually stood still for 2 or 3 minutes in a row.

He's a fine feller...