Kelly the Overthinker, Author at My Overthinking

Flowers and Feathers

8.25.11

I purchased this adorable headband as part of an adoption fundraiser.

It’s so over the top.

But, I love it.

I thought I could use it as a little photo prop for some sweet portraits of my girls.

But, I think it may just become everyday attire…at least for this one.

And This Is How I Spent My Afternoon

8.24.11

Yes, we had an earthquake today. But, much more exciting than that was how we spent the afternoon.

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And, they are already planning a sequel.

Starting a nonprofit is not like starting a club (I did that in 4th grade…and 7th grade) or starting a blog (I did that in 2008 and again in 2010). There’s a lot more to it…like a whole lot more to it.

When Mark said he wanted to do this, I smiled and thought it was fantastic . . . and thought he was crazy. But, crazy can be good. Crazy kept him going as he got books from the library and researched things online. Crazy kept him going as he wrote bylaws and articles of incorporation.

Finally, after 6 months of paperwork and lots of back and forth with Uncle Sam or, rather, Lois G. Lerner, Director of Exempt Organizations, as of today, we have our 501(c)3 letter making our nonprofit status totally official.

And, of course, we had to celebrate that tonight…with some extra awesome brownies.

Wish we could have enjoyed these with our extra awesome Board–Ashley, Sarah, and Brad. Instead, we had to settle for 4 people under the age of 9 who asked us about 9 x 4 times what the symbols meant on our brownies and why we were celebrating something. Apparently, we didn’t do a very good job explaining since Ashlyn asked us in between bites if the President called us about The Sparrow Fund.

Sunday Snapshots: {Hanging on}

8.21.11

Deep thinking about hard issues (see posts here and here) hasn’t kept us from sucking summer dry.

Someone told me recently that she’s too busy living life to record it. Guess I’m worried that we’ll be too busy living life to remember it. So, I am recording everything – much to my Macbook memory’s chagrin. Yesterday was no different.

With chores done and an opening in ical, we head out to a new favorite spot to sit in the shade and fish. No summer is complete without fishing. With one more week to make sure summer is complete, we fished…or they fished.

Lydia’s version of fishing…wading in the water with half of a fishing pole.

The fancy lures were fantastic for catching seaweed. Oh, how deceiving seedweed can be too. The snag and the weight sure can seem like a good catch…darn it.