Conversations

Grem­lin: Mom, what’s your job? Me: My job is being your mom, honey. Grem­lin: Well, that’s not enough. Me: Why not? That’s hard work some­times, ya know? Grem­lin: Weeeeell, Jesus said you have to have 3 jobs. what. sigh Me: Ok, so 1) I’m your mom, 2) I help peo­ple with com­puter soft­ware and 3) I’m daddy’s wife. How’s that? […]

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Here’s the 5 buck dealio

Word is spread­ing fast in the blo­gos­phere and twit­ter­verse about the 1-year sub­scrip­tion to South­ern Liv­ing for 5 bucks.  So in case you haven’t heard or haven’t done it yet.….get your deal here. Now if you really don’t care, well.…I get it.  I’m a sucker for mag­a­zines when it gets close to Fall and Christmas.  […]

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I’m an Empty-Nester

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 […]

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BlogHop break

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 […]

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New Mercies

Image by asirap via Flickr For quite awhile I’ve felt so much like Too­tles. Remem­ber him? He was the Lost Boy from the Peter Pan sto­ries who had “lost his mar­bles”.  Lit­tle did we know at first, that what he had really lost were his happy thoughts. I’ve touched on this from time to time. “I […]

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An all boy weekend

Image by stefan.klocek via Flickr This last week­end Old­man and J went with about 500 other guys in Mis­souri to a camp out called “Pow­Wow”.  It’s with a group that is very sim­i­lar to Boy Scouts.  J grew up in this pro­gram and went all the way to the end which means you get a […]

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