and not one of them was an April Fools jokes, which makes it a bit worse.  The wind has blown here for the past four days, without ceasing, at about 183 billion miles per hour.  I’m not exaggerating.   Not one tiny bit.   Animals and small children have been blown away from their families.  We watched a soccer game [...]

You might have guessed that I am not the sort of person who pulls pranks, or who particularly enjoys them being pulled on me.  (Hmmmm, spoilsport, anyone?)  But a few years ago I was witness to an awesome April Fools Day prank and I thought I would relive the memory today for the rest of [...]

Well, here I sit, for the past several days, waiting on inspiration to strike in the form of a funny, scathing, entertaining blog post. ::crickets chirping:: I got nothing. Simply put, nothing that interesting is happening in our lives lately.  Not that its a *bad* thing to be boring.  I stay home while the kids [...]

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 [...]

I just typed a very long, fascinating  journal entry to share with you all.  It was witty.  It was entertaining.  It was profound.  Maya Angelou, step aside. It was actually about how grumpy I get when I don’t have enough sleep.  Which is exactly the situation this morning. For very elaborate reasons that I was  [...]

Things I was grateful for today, in no particular order: 1.  A tankless hot water heater system, so even after three other people in my family took showers this morning, there was still plenty of nice, hot water for me. 2.  Plumbers who know what they are doing. 3.  Drive through mail drops, especially on [...]

Things *were* looking up … my laptop had been repaired and returned to me, and I was pleasantly surprised to discover Adobe gives you TWO installs per software program, so I was able to reinstall my PSE7 and begin editing Santa photos.  Never mind they were promised to people last week and I’ll be late [...]

In the span of the past ten days, I’ve had the following people in my house: Cable guy to check my computer connection. Tech Dude to pick up my computer. Different Tech Dude to return my computer. Contractor, and any one (or more) of the six or seven guys (framers, painters, electricians, texture, etc) that [...]

The good news:  Defective processors are apparently not a common problem in computers. The bad news:  That is what the diagnostic test at Best Buy determined was wrong with my computer. The good news:  For ONCE in my life, I had the sense God gave a goose and purchased the extended warranty, which means the defective [...]

Kellen has a good friend staying a week with us while his parents are on vacation.  Late this afternoon, the two of them walked down the street to another classmate’s house to see if he’d like to come back over to our house and hang out.  (I’d say “play”, which is what they would have [...]