Musings of an adventurous empty nest mom on everything under the sun.
What? Lame? Yeah, I know, but I purposefully do not live where it snows so this is the best I've got: Someone had asked me on Facebook if the cats were spooked by the sound of heavy rain on my skylight. No, they sleep right through it, BUT, the hail last night was LOUD not... Continue Reading →
First, for my fellow crazy cat lovers, a recommendation: Sweet Prince works for Petco corporate and brought me this self contained packet for grass seeds for the cats. Let me tell you, they LOVE it! And? it was remarkably easy to grow. I planted the seeds in the bag just before new years. Within a... Continue Reading →
A little color and hope of spring for my friends stuck in the depths of winter. Things I learned this week: Reading twitter is the 2011 version of "cleaning the oven". I know, you are confused. See, back in the 80s when I was still in college a classmate and I came up with the... Continue Reading →
I had to capture this moment last night - Amber actually sat in someone elses lap while mine was available on the same sofa! And? They are BOTH smiling! Doesn't get better than that does it? After 10 days of winter break, the first work week of 2011 has been survived - barely! Each... Continue Reading →
In my typically contrarian way, I am again, bucking tradition and not making any New Year's Resolutions. I tend to think of mine more as birthday ones, IF I make any at all given that my birthday is so close to the New Year. Anyhow, 46 has crept up. I'm trying to remain zen about... Continue Reading →
Today and tomorrow are the probably the two biggest listacle days of the year. Everyone will be blogging about the highlights/lowlights of 2010 and then tomorrow making their 2011 resolutions. Given that most of us who write on the internet are doing to unload one or two (or 10,000) frustrations through the keyboard vs onto... Continue Reading →
Sometimes, you just need to ask: While I can easily check out every website on the planet for crock pot recipes (and, believe me, I will!) - if my dear readers could please share ones they know have worked really well for them, that would be awesome. I am much more likely to try something... Continue Reading →
(A frightening peak into my brain on Saturday as I stood in my bedroom assessing the furniture situation & then soothed my frayed nerves by watching House Hunters & a couple of design shows which only triggered more rearranging ideas. Oh and I did take some pictures. I was just too tired after this to... Continue Reading →
Today started off crappy. And by crappy, I mean, really totally OK to all rational people. I dropped off SB at school in plenty of time to miss the drop off line traffic. I was happy because I had remembered in time that there was a breakfast special in the cafe that I wanted so... Continue Reading →
Ladies – raise your hands if you knew exactly what I meant just by that title. Now, I promise I’m not going to go into humiliatingly graphic detail here - isn’t it enough that I’m posting pictures of me from the 80s? - but I still have a few items to get off my... Continue Reading →
Trees & Flowers & Birds! 