Because Hubby has a good job we’ve always considered ourselves extremely blessed. Our bills are paid, there’s food on the table and we live in a nice house. We have warm clean clothes and we even have a few bucks left over at the end of the day to buy treats. One of the things [...]

I met Kristin King at SOBCon08 and had the chance to chat with her further last week at SOBCon09. She’s adorable! And, as it turns out, she has superpowers. Really! No kidding! Just recently she saved a choking baby by using the Heimlich Maneuver. Here’s what she posted on FaceBook. I Heimliched a choking baby [...]

I was discussing braces with the older boys this morning, and The Mercenary asked how much braces usually cost. I told him, “Around five thousand dollars.” “Five THOUSAND?????” he exclaimed. “All you need is a paper clip and some glue!” photo credit: dianaoctavius By the way, we’re talking about whether or not you should travel [...]

Hubby and the boys blessed me with some gorgeous flowers for Mother’s Day. Love them! They came via FedEx, so I had to unpack them and get them all arranged. This was fun – I’m easily amused. One of the directions was to peel two or three petals off of each rose as the tough [...]

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! I got a surprise a little early, would you like to see it? Well, ha ha….you don’t really have a choice. Hubby and the boys treated me to these beauties and I just had to share a pic. C’mon back tomorrow and I’ll tell you a [...]

Today? Today was an intense day. Not really bad….just wildly intense. Just to give you a few highlights, I started out with over an hour’s discussion with the older boys (before I’d even gotten out of bed in the morning). They weren’t getting along. All told, I think there were 4 major conversations, ranging from [...]