The Trials of a Busy Mom
Last night we went out to dinner to celebrate the end of a certain large event that we won’t talk about anymore. While enjoying our dinner (which was awesome, by the way. Mimi’s cafe rocks! Great service and they let us use gift certificates for ALL FIVE kids’ meals!), the subject of homework came up, [...]
A few years ago, I volunteered to “play Santa” for Ryan’s work Christmas party. They had Santa come, and gave a personalized gift to each child who attended. To prepare, they asked the employees to suggest a toy or let them know an interest of each child. There was a $10 budget for each gift. [...]
Today was my awards assembly for our school’s reflections contest. Hallelujah! This morning I left my house at 9:00, with all the entries, awards, medals, and certificates piled in the car. I dropped John off at a friends, and drove to the school. Since it was icy, I had to carefully pick my way along [...]
My husband just came home early (shock!) and surprised me with some much needed good news.
a-Ryan left work early today and took the van to the second repair place. The first place fixed a bad injector for us, but recommended that we take it to a different place that does more electrical work to fix [...]
I’m not one to actively watch an entire football game, even one as exciting and important as this one, but the score IS important to me. So, to watch our Cougars pull off a nice win like this one was quite exciting at our house.  It was pretty quiet here in the neighborhood because about [...]
It’s 9:15 am and already we’re on our third pull-up and second tantrum of the day.
I’ve spent $89 online.
And I’ve had one piece of pumpkin pie.
And I’m still in my pajamas.
And while I was looking at ebay auctions of certain game consoles that start with a W and end with two i’s, one of my [...]
I found this in my in-box today, with the message “maybe someone in your life needs you today”. Since this touched my heart, and since it is Thanksgiving season, I’ve decided to post in here. I hope you have a wonderful holiday with family and friends, and remember to thank your Father in [...]
You may know that I’m in charge of the PTA Reflections contest for our school. If you didn’t know that, well then you haven’t been paying attention around here. For the past two weeks, I’ve had 151 entries here at my house, and I’ve been in charge of getting entries judged, tally the [...]
My talented artist sister Amy did the artwork for Music and the Spoken word on Sunday. This is her third time in three months that they have asked her to do this, so I hope it’ll be a regular job for her. When she told me that she was doing some paintings for [...]
When we came downstairs this morning, we found an unwelcome sight. “What’s wrong with Zuzu?” Natalie asked. I went to go and look in the bird cage, and sure enough, our little Zuzu was laying down on the bottom of the cage. Birds don’t just lie down, so we knew something [...]