Lucky Dorito

We’re home.
Home from the trip, yes.
Also, home from work today with a sick child. I took her to the doctor and I am sad to report, it’s the flu. Lovely. I’m suddenly thinking another bout with allergy-induced asthma attack, that I originally suspected, would have actually been kind of a good thing.
I thought flu season [...]

Friday afternoon - ALL the kids came barreling out of school in anticipation of having a WHOLE week off of school for the long-awaited Spring Break. Some families from my area were loading up their mini-vans and heading south - 12 to 14 hours south, to the sandy beaches of places like Destin or Gulf [...]

Today is a very special day, indeed! My precious best friend Shannon is celebrating her birthday!! WooHooo!

SISTERCHICK (n): A friend who shares the deepest wonders of your heart, loves you like a sister, and provides a reality check when you are being a brat.

She is one of these. My sisterchick.
Here lately, we refer to [...]

First off, let me say - you’ll see the themes continue to change until I figure out how to get MY customized clickable header on the top of this page AND I’m satisfied with the color scheme. So, hang on for MORE changes!
I thought I would start a weekly “hodge-podge” of things that I want [...]

So yesterday, I told you about Suki. My kids already think I am a total WEIRD-O so I might as well keep going, right? And Chris, if you thought yesterday was fun - hang on to your hat! This one is chock-full of nicknames! So here’s a few more:
Beebo is not really my second child’s [...]

I love to make up nicknames for things and people. Inanimate objects are just an likely to get a silly name as the people in my life. Do not ask me why… I can’t explain. Might it stem from having a mother that named things? (I remember cars being named - she once drove a [...]

What a vision!
As I was making sure both the kiddos were tucked into bed Sunday night, I discovered Luby sleeping with her spelling test. Believe me, I have no idea WHY but there it was… but of course, I had to run get the camera! Do you see that big ole’ 100% grade on it? [...]

I realized something Sunday morning, in a moment of total clarity…. and I’ve sort of thought about it off and on ever since. So, your hearing it here first: I now know what it must be like to be a man! No, I didn’t suddenly start wishing I could sit around watching March Madness or [...]

Yeah, this is me! I’m a little bigger now, and maybe NOT as “chubby” in the cheeks. (Maybe ….. I suppose it depends on WHO you ask!) And there are a LOT more candles on my birthday cakes nowadays!I am just ME. Not fancy, not plain. Not beautiful, not butt-ugly. (Love that combination of words. [...]

Yeah Baby! What is that my eyes see? Oh. My. Gosh.Is it?
Could it BE?
Are those BLOOMS I see?????? Let’s look closer:
Yes! Yes! Yes!
How appropriate to see on the 1st day of Spring! Blooms and the blue sky in the background just did wonders lift my spirits! I am sooo stinkin tired [...]