When a name is more than just a name.
Tag: family
Sleepover
Bryan and I spent last weekend at my aunt and uncle's cottage at Lake Freeman in Indiana. You should have seen Bryan's face when he learned that my aunt had arranged for us to sleep "in the blue bed near Jillian's parents' bed" Don't get me wrong, we love my parents, but I'm not sure if…
Time capsule under the carpet
When I was in - oh, ninth grade or so? - my parents decided to renovate our basement. They installed drywall, constructed built-in shelves and laid carpet. My dad being my dad did all of the work himself. And before he covered the basement stairs with carpet, he let my sisters and me leave a time…
Muskrat Sam
[Sunday morning, over an IHOP breakfast in Kokomo, Indiana] Bryan's dad, Delano: "Welp, I got my leg stuck in a muskrat hole." Jillian [choking on pancakes]: "What?!" Delano: "I was walkin' around the property the other day, cleanin' some things out of the yard, and I stopped to use the facilities–" Bryan's stepmom, Cheryl: "–in the…
Jillian Wyatt 