What? No Thanksgiving? What happened? I don’t know – but I did not see a drop of my mother’s stuffing….so there couldn’t have been a Thanksgiving! I wonder if there is a Thanksgiving complaint desk – because I need to speak to the powers that be. I didn’t see Uncle Pat. I didn’t collect pecans [...]

Yum! Yum! Yum! Breakfast at McDonald’s – alone! While the kids are at school! Could there be anything better? I love getting to go places and do things alone – all by myself – it is such a rare treat. Taking a trip to McDonald’s when the kids are around – unless you’re all just [...]

Not really big news, as she is 10 and the boys are 12 and 13 – so we have been dealing with this for quite a while…. and could quite possibly be almost done dealing with this. The newsworthy part, which cracked Mark and I up, at the same time breaking my heart – is [...]

My precious little baby girl went and turned 10! How could she do this to me? She getting so ‘young-ladyish’ – even in spite of me and my ‘unladylike’ ways – this ‘ladyness’ is just so natural to her. It is really an amazing thing to watch grow and blossom in front of you. But [...]

Oh my goodness gracious! My poor grammar-lovin’ heart is a ‘bleedin!!! My darling son brought home a test in language arts. He got a perfect score on said test. The test, more specifically, was on pronoun vocabulary. Ugh….I’m cringing just thinking of sending this out into the blogosphere, out into the universe, information that could, [...]

Chevy Chase just rocks! There’s just no two ways about it! I love that guy! And National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is a scream! I can’t wait to watch it with the kids this year – I know we all be laughing so much – it will make for a great family night full of silliness [...]