Musings of an adventurous empty nest mom on everything under the sun.
More traditional photos of the house with a few explanations of what I was thinking or seeing in my mind as I painted: But first, some mis-direction! No paint visible up there. Thought I would start out with a shot of where I am sitting right now. I opened the last post on this topic... Continue Reading →
Warning, this story is not for the ultra prudish - IOW, this is totally Jr High humor. Driving in to work this morning I was listening to the radio with the morning show DJ telling this really moving story that had me a little verklempt. I'm sitting at a red light deep into this story... Continue Reading →
Well, there are three actually, but I already wrote about the Middle School online grade page 🙂 Are you a fan of Grey's Anatomy? Looking forward to the 2 hour premier tonight? You MUST bookmark this page: Grey Matter - written by the writers of each episode, sometimes by Shonda Rhimes (creator of the show)... Continue Reading →
I was going to write a very poofy post about how much fun it is to take my car in to the dealer and have a loaner car for a few days. You know - the fun of change and something new temporarily and all that. FWIW - having even an older Mercedes means the... Continue Reading →
So you get a recycled email that I sent out to my high school class rep for notes she is putting together to send out: From the Department of Redundancy dept..... The basics: Oldest son is 23 and working at Henry's making my grocery bill a little lighter since I get a family discount. Youngest... Continue Reading →
Hansen's soda should be paying my family. SportsBoy brings one in his lunch each week when he is with me and he conviced one of his friends to try it who's mom wont let them have regular soda. When he mentioned that Hansen's does not use High Fructose Corn syrup, she was sold and now... Continue Reading →
Me to Coworker: Hey, that's a really cute purse! Coworker: You like it? I'll sell it to you! (desperate for extra money are we?) ******************************************************* Email to me from fellow board member: I will need a check for the following; 1) inserts for red books 2) snow cone supplies/other for kick off day 3) first... Continue Reading →
8-6 victory thanks to a defense that played with some intense heart at the end. Thanks to some key long pass plays and then some pure speed. Thanks mostly though to the steady nerves and strong leg of our team's kicker. Oh, and probably some thanks to our special teams defense which jumped off sides... Continue Reading →
If you didn't know me and you heard me say the following two things last night, what would you think? "I would really like to go the bathroom alone. Just once please." "Oh! Stop chewing on that!" "I wonder if THIS will be the night when I get to fall asleep and not wake up... Continue Reading →
What kind of a day do you think it will be if you have to start off by calling your state govt office on behalf of the youth league for which you are Treasurer, only to hear the automated response "Your wait time is estimated to be to 49 minutes."? What if this was your... Continue Reading →
Trees & Flowers & Birds! 