On the left side of the sanity bell curve
I was in Arkansas Tuesday. The kids and I left Alabama at 7am and met my in-laws in West Memphis where I handed the kids off and continued on my way to the hospital where my dad was in ICU. Cause ICU’s where you end up when you try to kill yourself. That or the… Continue reading Swimming in the Crazy Pool
We’re not the holiday card type of people. I’d like to be but life always seems to have other ideas…that and the fact we haven’t had professional pictures taken since Cara was six weeks old. TONS of pictures of the kids half clothed whilst smeared with various food products. That just screams Christmas to me.… Continue reading Shutterfly Holiday Cards – How To Decide?!
This is the third in my series of Wisk sponsored posts. You can find the first two here: Pre-Review of Wisk with Stain Spectrum Technology and Wisk Protein Science Experiment. The way this experiment/demonstration was supposed to go is we cookout, eat some burgers and then let Cara make a nice, neat swipe of ketchup down… Continue reading Wisk Carbohydrate Lab Tailgate Party Experiment
Cara’s birthday party is this weekend…her fourth birthday party…the one I’m trying to not think about too much since then I’ll have to admit I’m about to have a four year old. And it’s not that I have an issue with her getting older. I’ve said before I love all these different phases. I even… Continue reading Halloween Hello Kitty Witch Cake Topper
I’m not sure if this is a sign but the kids and I seem to have our best trips and adventures when Tucker’s at drill. Sorry, Tucker. It’s true. Though the camping thing was pretty cool. OK. So maybe my little theory of Tucker being a wet blanket doesn’t stand up to scientific scrutiny but… Continue reading Tucker’s a Wet Blanket and the Park
What’s funny about my post yesterday is it started out to be about how I was going to complain about looking at a really nice house today that we can afford and about how Tucker’s been put in for two new jobs – both in NE Florida. Obviously those two events are diametrically opposed. So? See?… Continue reading Blogging Isn’t Real Life
My mind is pretty much blank today but I figured if I started typing then maybe something would come of it. I guess a bit of house keeping or something is in order first. One of the first “new blogger” tips you always read is: Have one topic for your blog and stick to it.… Continue reading You Choose What You Read
I’ve always been “bigger”. I had boobs in fifth grade. I had guys checking out way sooner than they should have. I shudder to think about that now that I have a daughter. I can vividly remember an uncle of mine carrying me up the stairs of his house as I played opossum and him remarking… Continue reading Fat Like You
My father’s mother’s house sits up on a hill at the edge of some 200 acres of woods. Nights would get so dark I knew if anything was out there to get me, I sure wasn’t going to see it before I got had. During grade school, my father adopted a tiny, white ball of fluff… Continue reading A Camping We Will Go
Last week was one of those weeks where I felt beat by the world. I’m not being sarcastic. Picture the world with big Arnold Swartzenager arms crashing down on my shoulders and pounding me down into the dirt like a tent stake or something. Things just piled up on me and by the end of… Continue reading Accentuate the Positive, Yo
For several months we swore off crayons. When the kids would get a box, more than 3/4 of the wax sticks would get broken – accidentally or not – and the other 1/4 would have their paper torn from them and then used in “cakes”. Cakes being these things lovingly crafted by Cara containing wooden… Continue reading Wherein I Decide if You Can’t Beat Them You Put Down a Lot of Paper
I know this isn’t my usual kind of post but it’s relevant to what I’m doing today and I’m feeling charitable SO I figured I’d share this with you. I’m in the process of ordering some stuff from Mom for Cara’s birthday: a realistic kitchen set from One Step Ahead. I freakin love this catalog; if… Continue reading One Step Ahead Coupon Codes
