Giving thanks

I saw as someone’s facebook status update that they would post daily about what they are thankful for since this is month of Thanksgiving and all.  I’ve decided to start my blog posts this month with things I am thankful for.  Today’s thankfulness is also sort of a PSA:
I am thankful that hairspray will remove [...]

Touching Trucks

This weekend our city sponsored free a “Touch a Truck” event where they had lots of big trucks set up for kids to explore.  They had a fire truck, police command station, police motorcycle, a bomb squad robot, city bus, tractors, just to name a few.  Is it a sign that my kids spent the [...]

25 Firsts

I was tagged by Single Mommy who incidentally, I’ve “known” online for a long time.  I’m not sure how long, but my best guess is seven years.  There was a time when we would email each other daily – sometimes multiple times daily!  We have never met in person but there was one time in [...]

Ditching the list

Friday afternoon, I made a list of things I hoped to accomplish over the weekend.  By Saturday morning, I ditched my list and decided to ENJOY MY WEEKEND.  Sometimes, I find that I get more things done without a list.  I guess I feel like a failure if I don’t get through a list, but [...]

Rainy weekend

We’ve been having rainy, cooler weather and I am enjoying the reprieve from the heat!
Yesterday, some friends visited that we hadn’t seen in about six years! It was so nice to catch up and we got to meet each others’ kids. They have a three year old daughter that T enjoyed [...]

I finally met a Cookie I didn’t like

A while back I came across an offer for a free subscription to Cookie magazine.  I like magazines.  I like free things better.  I signed up and recently received my first issue.
It’s a family/parenting magazine and their tagline is “all the best for your family.”  According to them, my family does not get the best.  [...]

Cell phone pics

We finally were able to download pictures off of our cellphones.  Here are some random ones off of mine:

[Feb 2009] I felt compelled to document my stupidity.  I pulled up on a concrete pad to park.  Someone had thoughtfully created a big “lip” so that people couldn’t accidentally driver over off the pad and get [...]

Attn: Carnivores

I hadn’t used the crockpot since we moved a few months ago.
[Oh yeah, btw, we are chicken farmers no more.  We moved to the "big" city.  Which is actually still a "small" town.  But it is "big" since the farm was in a city where the population was 1,000.  Now we live in a city [...]

Words to meditate on

My friend Leigh participated in this meme and I decided to play along.  Here’s how it works:   Reply to this post using words, and I’ll give you 5 words that remind me of you.  Then post to your own blog with your meditations on those words, inviting others to ask you for words.  Leigh [...]

Why I love Earth Day

Almost 9 years ago, I married this guy.  His name is Ken.  He was working at a child development center at the time and we were showered with lots of art and drawings from the kids at the center.  Some of the older kids got the idea of a wedding and getting married and we [...]