From the monthly archives:

July 2009

I’m an Empty-Nester

July 30, 2009

Image by alykat via Flickr

The boys and I had the coolest experience yesterday. I was reading a book cleaning my house when Gremlin ran into the house  yelling, ‘Mom, you’ve got to come outside. We really need your help!”
Now, I had heard him running in and out of the kitchen and was figuring he was [...]

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Are you the solution?

July 27, 2009

When you have young ones they will at some point in time discover failure.  Sometimes it’s real, kick-you-in-the-gut failure. Sometimes it’s just their idea of failure. Either way – it hurts. It makes you want to pull back. Hide….not really give it your all the next time. If it’s not addressed, there tends to be [...]

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Love, laughter and SHOPPING

July 26, 2009

The boys were dropped off to some WONDERFUL friends by 2pm and we were in Branson around 3pm or so. We really don’t go to Branson that much in the summer. Mostly because there are so many tourists. But we just needed a little get away and our 11th anniversary was a perfect excuse. The [...]

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BlogHop break

July 24, 2009

It’s amazing how many bloggers are out “there” that I’ve never heard of and I’m having a blast learning about so many of you guys, but I must take a break tonight.
Tomorrow is J and I’s 11th wedding anniversary.  We’ve got some awesome friends watching the boys and we’re going to take a quick jaunt [...]

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