If you’re friends with me on Facebook, you’ve probably already seen this.  But just in case not, I thought I would share:  Kendrie: “Mom, I think I’m pregnant.” Me: “Oh, really? Have you been having a lot of sex?” Kendrie: “no.” Me: “Then why on earth would you think you are pregnant? Kendrie: “Because my [...]

Ok, I don’t normally like to be all Braggy McBraggypants about my kids and the wonderful things they do because quite frankly, its much more fun to tell you about their faults and fallacies and to make fun of the way they butcher the English language on a regular basis.  What is the point of [...]

I was taking pictures for a friend in the park the other evening and the girls went with me, to serve oh-so-willingly as helpers. OK, that’s a big fat lie.  I paid each of them $3 to help me schlep my cameras and bags and stepstools and reflectors around the park …. THEN they made me [...]

Kendrie, “Mom, what do you think of my costume for my skit at school?  Dad helped me make it.  Do you like it?” Mom:  “Sure I do.  Are you guys re-enacting a toga party?” Kendrie, “No.” Mom:  “Are you a ghost?” Kendrie:  “No.” Mom:  “A Roman emperor?” Kendrie:  “No.” Mom:  “So just what exactly *are* [...]

Well, the arm cast, necessary or not, is actually not slowing Kendrie down too much.  She can still take showers, she plans to swim next week when school lets out, she’s part of the currently ongoing extremely exciting because we’re down to the championship and apparently slushies are on the line dodgeball tournament taking place [...]

… and this still makes me giggle. Kendrie, age 8′ish months, with the world’s most mutant Easter Bunny, in the new “Awkward Family Photos” book, page 157, under the section labeled “Most Awkward Holiday Mascot.” Ha!!  The heck with leukemia, she’ll need therapy for THAT RABBIT! Book now available online, Amazon, and of course, your [...]

flipping skippy. In fairness, even the orthopedist isn’t sure if its broken or not ……… which means if it is, its obviously not a bad break.  So she got what we are calling a “better safe than sorry” cast for the next three weeks.  Pros:  waterproof.  Cons:  well, it’s a cast, isn’t it? Since arriving [...]

I mentioned a few days ago that Kellen and Brayden had to manage the inaugural descent into our new storm shelter by themselves, also getting the animals in and out, because I wasn’t home … and in fact, I couldn’t even reach them by phone.  But I didn’t tell you why. Not that it’s hugely exciting [...]

Remember how I told you how much I love that my kids are attending a small school?  And how I especially love that there are no “feeder” schools into the middle school, or the high school?   That the kids just stay with the same classmates all the way through graduation, and how the elementary, middle [...]

Kellen has been asking me for a week to buy him a new notebook for math. Not just any notebook, but one with a green cover. Because apparently that is what the math teacher requires. Never mind that I have a stack of unused notebooks here at the house he could use, in all colors [...]