Usually when moms get sick (or this mom, anyway) everything falls apart.  The house is a mess, nothing gets done and no one gets fed. But today, I’m thinking that maybe I should get sick more often.  Derek’s out of town but cleaned the kitchen last night before he left.  This morning Jacob helped with…

Doing a heaping load of laundry today!  For a long time I’ve been wanting to post a picture of "things I find in the laundry"…rocks, notes, sticks, acorns, etc.  But I always forget and just throw stuff away.  But today’s find takes the cake for laundry finds.  At the bottom of Jacob’s basket, I find…

Thought it would be fun to faux finish the kitchen.  And it is…but after 7 hours of work and just one wall finished and a hand that is cramping and a shoulder that is sore, I have to wonder, as usual, WHAT WAS I THINKING? What do you think?  Don’t judge it until you see…

Not really.  But today I had a moment where I wish I had chosen that profession.  And this is why: I was up on the ladder faux painting the kitchen, and Jacob said (I can’t remember the context of the conversation) to Caleb, "Girls can’t be pilots."  WELL…that caught my attention. ME:  "Oh, yes, they…

it’s funny. Saw this on someone’s blog today.  I have been trying for 5 minutes, and still can’t do it. How Smart Is Your Right Foot? 1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right footoff the floor and make clockwise circles with it.2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in theair with…

Wednesday Hi 80 Lo 56 Partly Cloudy Thursday Hi 80 Lo 37 Scattered Showers Friday Hi 41 Lo 32 Partly Cloudy Saturday Hi 41 Lo 34 Rain This forecast makes me laugh…only in Texas!  We’ll enjoy the 80 degree days while we have them.

I think that retailers must love me.  I’m exactly what they’re hoping for, and exactly what my husband is hoping against! He, he, he. This is what causes me to buy things:  If something comes into my line of vision, thought, hearing, etc., three times or more in a relatively short period of time, I…

Here’s my day: J to school, C to school, home to fulfill marquee duties and get paper for Kinder party, to Lowes (painting the kitchen), to Half Price Books, to mall (oh let’s see I have 25 minutes I’ll hit Barnes and Noble, Z Gallerie, Elegant Interiors, Dicks Sporting Goods, Overland Trading Co, Nordstrom, and…

On Valentine’s Day in 1997, I was in college.  And I hated this holiday…nobody real exciting to date or share the day with.  In fact, I just assumed we skip it altogether.  But that evening my roommate and I were making dinner and had the TV on…we were watching Entertainment Tonight (ahhh…such a quality program!). …

I’ve been looking in my Disney photos trying to decide which ones to have printed for the scrapbooks.  Found two that I haven’t shared that I think should be the next "Come to Disney World" print ad pictures. What can I say, the boy loves beautiful women! Fatigue was setting in, but he still had…