Tripping Over My Tongue

In the last three years, we have been incredibly lucky where illnesses are concerned. The girls both had the flu, stomach and regular, w...

Today was the first day of 7th grade and the first day of 10th grade for my daughters. It was a day that we were all dreading for different ...

A summary of my most awesome weekend... Friday was the last day of school for the kids. They have the next two weeks or so off of school f...

Wednesday has me thinking about what we have going on this weekend. Not a whole lot. First of all, the Oldest Child's punishment will ...

The Children's Pool at La Jolla, CA What have I been up to lately? I don't call anyone, I don't blog regularly, and I only p...

This school year has been the biggest adjustment. Both kids are at new schools...again, this year with one starting junior high and the othe...

You know how I hate Mondays, right? Well, tomorrow is going to be a particularly rough one. We have to get up at around 3-3:30 am so that we...

This is a long overdue post. The Mister arrived home from Afghanistan safe and sound February 27th. If we are Facebook friends, friends IRL,...

Having the Mister gone this past week has been an adjustment. I find myself getting sentimental over the dumbest things. For instance, I can...

These are things my kids, and I’m sure tons of others, say that drive me up a wall. “I AM!!!!”  Said in response to me telling them to ...

We had a bit of a thing happen today. I’ll explain. Last year when we took our OBX vacation, I wrote a letter of explanation to the oldest...

It was another slow weekend at our house. Friday the Mister and I did a bit of Christmas shopping. We also bought snack food for the Ohio St...

After my rather eventful Friday, laying low for the rest of the weekend seemed to be in order. Halloween was nice. The oldest dressed as a...

I know that we are new to the homeschooling thing. I don't, by any means, shape, form, or dream, claim to be an expert on homeschooling...

We had another household mishap. They’re starting to become routine which is scary. To refresh your memories before I tell you about the new...

I don't and never have considered myself to be an overly political person. I think that it is beyond ridiculous that if you call yoursel...

Today was the first time the oldest child was allowed to wear makeup to school. Nothing too dramatic. Luckily for me, she seems to lean more...

It's been forever since I've had a real blog post. I read somewhere that you're not supposed to acknowledge time away from your ...

After my yelling episode the other night, the kids involved all got into trouble with their parents, mine included. Apparently, I yelled lou...

I know that I said that I would be back to my Pets Hall of Fame series yesterday. At least I think that’s what I said. But I’ve had a hellac...