Angel Wheeler

  • The ol’ Thumb Trick

    I know this is bad. I know this is bad. I know this is bad. But isn’t it just so darn cute? Emma Kate was hungry.  And if you can’t get the real thing to suck on, you go for the second best thing.  She hit the jackpot with her thumb and was going to… Read more

  • 1 month old

    My Darling Emma Kate, I’m writing to you, my precious, even though I know you can’t read yet.  But you’re so smart, I’m convinced it will probably only take you another couple of months at the rate you’re going!    I want to capture your life and all its milestones, stepping stones, and rocky roads… Read more

  • 3 weeks old

    Our baby girl is already 3 weeks old, and has completely stolen our hearts. Read more

  • Really, Mom?

    My baby’s got hats.  She’s got a lot of hats.  I am nuts for a knitted hat.  Or crocheted, since I don’t really know the difference. But my baby’s also got problems.  Her head is small and her hats are big. So while I’m waiting for her head to grow, I thought we’d try out… Read more

  • Small Miracles

    So why did the chicken cross the road? To get back home from her Mexican vacation, that’s why. Yes, it’s a small miracle, but I’ll take it.  My missing yellow chicken that I wrote about in this post here, has returned safely. I don’t know where she’s been, I only know that she’s home.  She… Read more

  • In Memory of My Dad #42—Neighbors

    “Wish I could move my family, live up on Highway 10, where the beavers chew on sycamores and the neighbors are your friends.” Highway 10 by Dan Garber Once upon a time here in the wooded hills of Eastern Oklahoma the word neighbor had special meaning. But that was before the days of moon shots… Read more

  • In Memory of My Dad #41—All About August

    The last week of July was uncommonly cool, but we’ll still have the fragrance ridden nights that are filled with the smell of honeysuckle. Nothing stirs the memory for me quite like the odor of honeysuckle and lilac. I recall crushed and faded flowers in the old family Bible, maybe alongside a curl clipped from… Read more

  • A Chicken is good for a laugh or two

    When we drove to a nearby city on Friday, January 27th to check into the hospital to give birth, we thought we’d only be gone a couple of days, and so we prepared for being gone only a couple of days.  But as fate would have it, it turned out to be seven. J-Dub drove… Read more

  • Emotions.

    The first time I watched the movie Raising Arizona, I couldn’t believe how stupid it was.  But, in its defense, I didn’t really watch it.  I busied myself with other things, catching snippets here and there while my husband sat in his chair giggling his little butt off at, in my opinion, bad actors. At… Read more

  • She’s Here……

    After a long awaited 41 weeks, our little girl, Emma Kate arrived on January 28 at 2:47 p.m. weighing in at 7.4 oz and 20 inches long. She spent 6 days in the Neonatal ICU with breathing complications, and finally after a long, exhausting, emotionally and physically draining time where days and nights ran together,… Read more