Open letters

Dear throat,
I’m really sick of you not feeling good.  I drink plenty of water, I treat you right and all you do is give me swollen lymph nodes and nasty phlegm.
Get over yourself.
Please get better,
That sick girl
Dear knee,
I’m really sorry if I put too much stress on you yesterday.  I thought you would enjoy the [...]

Better late than never?

That crazy internet addiction is rearing it’s ugly head again!
I had every intention of participating in TV Turnoff Week in September by turning off my computer for a whole week, but I guess I was too busy playing online solitaire to actually put it on my blogging calendar.
So, except for businessy type stuff,  I’m stepping [...]

True Colors

I think I’ve written quite often (too often, in fact) about particular faults my kids have and bad phases they have gone through. And I think when ever I bring up my own faults, they are usually parenting based.
I know this may come as a shock to you, but I have many, MANY more faults [...]

Snapshot

Just for that moment, there was no fighting.  No pushing.  No yelling.  No hitting.  No kicking.  No biting.  No chasing.  No bickering.  No pestering.
Only jumping.

And falling.

And jumping again.

Seasons Change

Last week, my friend Bob tagged me for a meme about the changing seasons.  I hadn’t ever seen anything like it before and I loved the idea, so I’m in.
Basically, he asks what marks the change of seasons for us.  In his words:
I don’t care WHAT the calendar sez.  I don’t care WHERE the earth [...]

Calling in reinforcements

Every once in a while, I go through a bit of a blogging slump.
There just doesn’t seem to be much going on, and I don’t feel I write well enough to turn the daily mundane into the readable love story to life that some bloggers are able to.
I stand in awe of writers like Stephanie [...]

On the horizon

I have not worked outside the home since before Jake was born.  I have a vague memory of working while I was pregnant with him, so that puts my last job about 7 years ago.
It’s always been in the game plan that I would return back to work once both kids were in school full [...]

(Nearly) Daily Medicine

I’m a very big fan of sleeping, even if I’m not so good at actually going to bed at a decent hour.  I’ve always been a night owl, staying up far later than was probably healthy.
I still do it today, even knowing that I have wee ones that are counting on me in the morning.  [...]

Tuning in

I watch entirely too much TV.  I’m pretty much parked in front of it from 8:30 ’til 11:30 every night.
Every. Single. Night.
Needless to say, I’m pretty darn excited that fall TV lineup is finally starting to have its season premieres.  I’ve pretty got my viewing schedule in place, but there are a few shows in [...]

Stomping grounds

This past weekend, we all went to Ohio to surprise the family. We  had a great time with everybody, but as we drove from house to house visiting, I noticed something.
The city I visited is not the city I grew up in.
Business after business that I remembered from my childhood was boarded up.  The new [...]