I went to Six Flags with Brayden and the middle school choir today. Er, make that yesterday. Saturday. When was that??? I got up at 2:30 am, to leave for the school at 3:30 am, and drove myself, following the charter bus that held the kids, the director, and the parent chaperones who were much [...]
Warning: cursing ahead, because I am really skeeved out and annoyed. So you remember a couple of weeks ago when Blaine came to me with a funny look on his face, and I was all prepared for him to tell me his cancer was back, and instead he announced that our cat had caught a mouse, [...]
I was getting settled in the recliner last night, ready to put myself to “bed” ….. (its quite an undertaking, you see, getting all the pillows and blankets in just the right positions for maximum comfort, air conditioner on but not blowing right on me, lights off, phone charging but ringer off, potty break complete, and [...]
When I moved into my first apartment at the ripe old age of 18, my mom let me take my bedroom furniture with me, and she bought me a nice set of pots and pans, but I was on my own for the rest of it. I bought a table at a rent-to-own store (THE most [...]
I have the best, smartest, most resourceful husband, brother-in-law, and nephew in the world. I said, “How did you figure it out when the professional delivery people couldn’t do it?” and Blaine replied, “They didn’t have a vested interest in making it work.” Which I think is code for “I didn’t want to see my [...]
We have planned and implemented a major upstairs remodel job around the goal of converting our downstairs master bedroom into a den. What the contractor promised would be a five or six day job is now going on week three with no real end in sight. I guess its hard to make progress when you don’t [...]
So, I’ve talked in the past about how lucky we were to get this house, in this school district, and how the previous owners renovated it from a tiny, older home into the house we currently enjoy. And while I feel blessed with every bone in my body to have gotten this house (Hello, Mr. [...]
I started to label this post “Coming Out of the Closet”, but didn’t need *those* kinds of internet rumors floating around about my son, that’s for sure! So I re-titled the post, although after reading the title again, we’ll probably have Children’s Services calling us any day. Mainly, I just wanted to share with you [...]
I like our new house. I really do. In fact, if you remember, I went so far as to admit that after the stress of trying to get into this school district, and trying to live in something that wouldn’t qualify as section-8, that I burst into tears of relief when I found out our [...]
The scene: Our bedroom, this evening. The prop in question: The writing desk I just purchased. The conditions: Blaine’s hair, standing on end. Well, if he had enough to stand on end, that is. Blaine: No, of course I don’t **mind** putting it together for you. It’s just that it’s never as easy as they [...]