Today’s is a "heavy" post.  If you’re in a "light" mood, you might want to save it for another day!  Not sure why…just been on my mind for a while and culminated in hearing a song that I love over the weekend.  It also stems from the sermon at my dad’s church on Sunday…asking the…

We’re back from a trip to Austin…it included massive traffic, hand-me-down furniture, and me as sick as a dog (viral infection in my throat and flu-like symptoms).  We’re glad to be home, but enjoyed time with family and I realized how beautiful Austin is…why do I live somewhere where the only thing I see out…

Ok…here’s my "going to church" doll… Derek’s home from work saying "uh, hunny, I think it’s time to go play with your son." 🙂 Just one more doll!

    Saw this on someone’s blog and thought it would be fun.  Harder than it looks!  The clothes are definitely me (love those turquoise flip flops!)…the face, not so much…the hair, maybe on a good day.  And the body, well…I wish.  Caleb says it looks like "one of your girls"…meaning the 10-12 year old…

Ok.  So you know I’ve been giving kitchen updates and well, this should be the post where I say, I FINISHED!  Yea…it should be.  But it isn’t.  I was finished.  WAS being the important word here.  But then I started to think you know that little area (2 foot by 2 foot) on that big…

That’s our favorite phrase around here these days.  The boys negotiate bedtime with it.  "Go to bed – Deal.  Stay up and read another book – No Deal!"  You have to watch the show to know…but "NO DEAL" is the usual response!  We love to watch it as a family (sans the primetime commercials which…

Derek and I have never seen the show Grey’s Anatomy.  But we learned tonight on the Baba Wawa special, that the two main characters (who happen to be romantically involved) share our names!  Never mind the fact that on the show Derek is having an affair with Meredith!  How many times do you see your…

WEATHER   This image came from the local ABC website…a RECORD high in Dallas today.  It felt like June…late June, for that matter.  And it broke a 107-year record!!  I hope this isn’t the beginning of a very LONG and hot summer. SLEEPING ON THE JOB Well, technically, I wasn’t on the clock, but it…

I am STILL painting.  Today it’s above my cabinets, which involves two ladders, and sometimes stepping on things that weren’t meant to be stepped on, to get to the wall.  This might just be the most miserable project I’ve ever undertaken.  No really, I mean that. 🙂 

Saw a vignette on the TODAY show this morning about sleep…how much you should get, why, statistics of sleep deprivation, etc.  It was fascinating…without sleep we can be moody and irritable (duh!).  We have a higher likelihood of falling asleep on the job, at the wheel and while operating heavy machinery (uh, yeah).  We are…