Phase Two of the Braces Regimen.
And that crying sound you heard?  Our checkbook.
The orthodontist here said, “Whoever did Brayden’s Phase One in Georgia did a really great job.  She’ll only need this full set of braces on for eighteen months …. about a year shorter than normal.”
I replied, “Oh, good.  So does that mean we [...]

1.  Sleep in until 10:30.  Which is really only 9:30.  But still, that’s pretty late.  Except it was totally not my fault because Blaine is painting our bedroom so he unplugged the one clock that we have and when I woke up this morning I knew thanks to daylight savings time that the brightness of [...]

1.  Yes, definitely darker.  I was tired of messing with the roots growing out, and wanted to cover the gray better.  I told my hairdresser to make her best guess as to my natural color.  No idea how close we are, especially considering the older I get, the darker it gets.  Can you believe I [...]

More importantly, how long before I stop reaching up there, wondering where it all went?
Before:

After:

For the record, although I did print out the Locks of Love donation sheet, when my hairdresser put it in a ponytail and cut it off, it wasn’t the required 10 inches needed to donate.  Not sure how many more inches [...]

One season ends, and another begins.
More specifically, in this case, soccer season.

Running, dribbling, passing, (hopefully) scoring ….

A older division, a larger playing field, more players on the field at the same time, and new rules, like offsides and um … other things we don’t understand yet.

The bigger field means we need to become better at [...]

One of Kellen’s favorite book series is “Gregor the Overlander”.  Its a set of stories about a boy who accidentally falls through a NYC laundry drain (?) and discovers an entire under-world, where people live, and compete for survival, with various animal species.  Warm, cuddly, smurf-able animals, like rats, mice, cockroaches, scorpions, spiders, snakes, etc.  [...]

Since moving over from Caringbridge, and then Blogger, and now to this Wordpress blog, I’m suddenly the lucky recipient of spam.  Not the canned meat variety, but the comment variety.  While I don’t really remember getting much spam on the other blogs, I do here.  Quite a few, each day.  In fact, some days I [...]

You really need to go here.
And read all the way through, then watch the videos, because that is the cool part.  Well, no, the cool part is this family, period. 
Way to go, Eammon and Declan …. hope you raise tons of money!  (although you sure won’t have to spend any of it on shampoo for [...]

Kellen and his cousin Landon played in the same basketball league this winter, but their teams were in different divisions.  Kellen’s team was exactly where it should be ….. they won about half their games.  The majority of the games they won, they won by a fairly close margin.  Same for the games they lost.  [...]

Because really, not just anyone can take photos as good as this:

Honestly, including someone’s HEAD in the photo is highly over rated.  Why should I settle, and be like everyone else?  I think cutting off the heads could be my own unique watermark.

And why worry yourself over something as silly as FOCUS? 

Don’t you agree?  Focus [...]