With my Mother-in-law scheduled to arrive in a few days, I’m in OMG-I-need-to-clean mode. So I solicited the assistance of my girls to dust and vacuum while I did more difficult tasks like steaming the carpet. They spent the morning b ...
It’s no secret that I haven’t been blogging much lately. I’ve been pretty busy and finding time to blog has been difficult. Aside from part time and freelance work, I’ve been focusing on my health and my weight whi ...
Since August, DH and I have been on a journey to a healthier life. I’ve mentioned it before, I know. But it is important and unlike people who take the step as a New Year’s Resolution, we’re still going strong. The weight ...
Many, many, many years ago, we had a perpetual collection of cereal in our little apartment. Despite lacking the space to store it, I bought it… because it was cheap (or free). The area above the kitchen cabinets that normal people us ...
Reading Facebook can be pretty entertaining sometimes. A friend, Audrey, announced that her son was searching their pantry for Box Tops so his class could win the pizza party. I think it was originally posted as a warning that soon he wou ...
When I was 4, my folks uprooted us from our small home in the small city and transplanted us right into rural Iowa. We lived in a housing development that consisted of 10 acre non-farm properties. The school that I attended was itty-bitty a ...
Know what I’m doing right now? Typing my blog post on my iPad. Before that, I was playing a game on it and before that I entered something in my nutrition tracking app. A little while ago, I was wondering how much a video game was wor ...
Anybody who has ever eaten at our house knows who wears the apron in the family. Even if you ask my kids who is most responsible for setting off the smoke alarm, they’ll say “Mom!”. That’s okay though because it has ...
As we sat in a restaurant this past weekend with friends, DH pointed out a sign that he had never seen before. “Stressed spelled backwards is dessert.” I’ve heard it before but it always rings true. Whenever I’m str ...
When I was growing up, I remember the battle we had between who got to tear off the top to the cereal box and at what point. At the time, by turning in the entire top to the cereal box, we helped our school get things like playground or gym ...
