Note to Self: Be Sure To Make the Kids Rehearse Their "Tricks" Before Trick-or-Treating Next Year

November 3, 2008

What was your kids’ Halloween “trick”? You know, like doing a cartwheel or telling a joke… Boy #3 told his version of a knock-knock joke to those neighbors who dared to ask him if he had a “trick”: Knock-knock.Who’s there?Boo.Boo hoo?See? I made you laugh! Boy #2′s trick? Well, let me just tell you… It [...]

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How The Google Made Me Smile Today

October 30, 2008

Boy #2′s new favorite pastime? Google Images. He can spend hours Googling all of his “favorite things” (“strict safe search” on of course), which include Pokemon, Star Wars, soccer, and the drums, just to name a few. He’s now moved from simply searching to now printing out these images and creating his own posters to [...]

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Up All Night (Sleep All Day)

October 27, 2008

(Photo courtesy of photobucket) To quote the iconic 80s hair band, Slaughter, it looks like it’s going to be “Up All Night (Sleep All Day)” for me. Well, without that “Sleep All Day” part in parentheses. Why, you ask? Well, let me tell you. I’m feeling waaaaay behind. I mean, you leave for 3 days [...]

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Why I Love My Husband…

October 27, 2008

He’s not the mushy type; he doesn’t write me love notes or sing me 80s love ballads on my voicemail (Which, frankly, might frighten me–no offense, honey!). But he knows how to make me smile when I’m having a moody Monday morning. And he reads my blog. Case in point: Here is an email that [...]

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Welcome Baby Turkeypants!

October 23, 2008

To follow up from yesterday’s post… Meet my new nephew!

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Controversial Blog Post Puts Woman into Labor!

October 22, 2008

Is it a coincidence that turkeypants (AKA my little sis) commented THREE times on my controversial post yesterday—and is now IN LABOR at the hospital? I think not. Glad I could help move things along, turkeypants. I think “Paul” would be a fitting name for my new nephew… (And for the rest of you—don’t worry! [...]

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"Hope and Change" Becomes "Gloom and Doom"

October 21, 2008

Wow. I’m wondering where “hope” and “change” went. “Mark my words: It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you [...]

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". . . That Saved a Wretch Like Me!"

October 20, 2008

I try to be a good Christian woman, I really do. But then that “human” thing gets in the way. And I do something that makes me feel like a total heathen. Take this morning, for instance. I’m driving to work, listening to my Christian radio station trying to put myself in the right frame [...]

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