Living in a metro area, you get used to spending time on highways. It’s just how you get somewhere when you live in and around a city. However, since we routinely strike out across the state, we get a much different experience by spending three or four hours on I-44 going to visit grandparents and [...]
It’s about this time every year when I start to get really tired of gray days marching on without an end in sight. It’s only recently that I realized how much sunlight influences my moods and that knowledge has made a big difference, but still… enough winter already! Fortunately this is the time of year [...]
Anyone remember that song “video killed the radio star…“? Well, I think Facebook has killed many a blog. I’m not sure this one is dead, but certainly comatose. It’s so easy to slap out a sentence on Facebook and move on, whereas writing a post takes more time and some thought. The thing is – [...]
This is the type of thing that makes someone with an English degree cringe. Exhibit A: Our waitress put our leftovers in a handy bag after dinner tonight. When I first read it I thought the first word was used as an adjective, as in Live Aid, with a long i sound. (Yes, I know, [...]
I just dropped my baby girl off at church to load up and go to camp. And true to the super mom I am not, I neglected to take pictures. It’s not her first time away overnight, but the first time it’s been with anyone other than family or close friends. She’s super excited, although [...]
We jokingly call the area under Viking’s bed Sadie’s Lair. It doesn’t have the same ring as Smaug’s Lair, but she looks at it the same way. Anytime she can grab something she fancies she dashes off to her lair, usually with a kid hot on her tail hollering. If we can’t find something, we [...]
Saxon math for the early years is an exercise in frustration for the perfectionist child. I am just stubborn enough that we have stuck it out until this point, but even a mom with a bronze forehead can only take so much crying about math lessons. Henceforth, we are going with Horizons math. Amen. Anyone [...]
This is big, folks. I just won a solitaire game. No big deal? It is, only because I officially crossed the 35% win percentage barrier. So now I guess I can’t play solitaire anymore. As sure as I do, I’ll lose a string of games and crash my win percentage. Phoooo….
These are a few of my faaaaa-vorite things… (dum da da, dum da da) Trader Joe’s multigrain crackers. Best tasting cracker ever, and less than $2 a box! Raspberries. My dustbuster. Hand it to Viking – he thinks it’s a game and I get to go another day without vacuuming. Gardening catalogs. Paisley. Bedtime. The [...]
I enjoy reading magazines and although I read most of them in the public library, I do subscribe to a few. The problem is that my pack rat tendencies just go into overdrive when I look at a magazine full of thrifty decorating ideas or possible garden plants or recipes I just have to try [...]
