‘Twas A Good Day
(Preface: Today was one of those hair-on-fire, MACH-10 kind-of days where I bounced around like a pinball between both elementary schools for events, but oh, …
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What Family Means
My husband, with clenched teeth and a night he wanted to end, handed out ice-cream filled cereal bowls like he was handing out deployment orders …
Not Just Another Day
(Note: I’ve been hiding this in draft for over a month, afraid to share. But I feel like, the more I hide it, the more …
To Do Tuesday Week 52 – ONE YEAR OLD!
If this is your first time reading and you’re wondering what To-Do Tuesday is all about, click to check out the first post to find …
The Great Holiday Exhale
In the clustered, frantic moments after the holiday, the stifled breaths we feel as we muster through the paper, cardboard, and seemingly too-many-to-belong gifts that …
Two-Hundred Nine
(Mind you, I didn’t say 2009, like the year. I said 209.) That’s how many people voted for my entry into the Protect-A-Bed Scholarship contest. …
Silhouette Frames Project Inspired by NieNie
If you read NieNie, you notice in her header some silhouette pictures of her and her family. Those silhouette pictures she would make every year, …
Organizing Your Bills
I’m a container queen, I’ll admit it. I’m hopelessly addicted to containers of all kinds to store things in (I will divulge the depths of …
The Free Quarter
We took the many children to the local arcade/bowling alley/roller skating rink to celebrate my son’s 9th birthday. Upon arriving, the arcade is the first …
Someone Snap Me Out of My Lack-Of-Christmas-Spirit Funk
Anyone seen my Christmas spirit around somewhere? I think I might’ve lost it. Christmas decor up – check Christmas tree up (despite half the lights …
My “Dear Mother” Letter
This is my letter for The Mother Letter Project originally created Monday November 24th 2008. Dear Mother, This letter comes at such a time when …