Hulloooooooo, Internets! Have you missed me? I’ve missed you! The last week and a half have been a bit all-consuming, but I’m getting caught up now and hope to get back to my regularly scheduled activities soon. So. I asked you about how well your kiddos get along with each other. Many thanks to Mary, [...]

One of the benefits of having kids is being able to tease them. Come on…you know you love it too! An old standby for Hubby and I is the “What’s for Dinner” conversation. It goes something like: child: What’s for dinner? parent: Food. child: What kind of food? parent: The kind you eat. child: (sighs) [...]

Have you ever seen the book called Happiness Is A Warm Puppy by Charles Schultz? I have an old beat-up copy from my childhood that I treasure. I was thinking about that phrase this week and started a list of things that complete it. You know. Just for fun, not deep philosophy of the universe [...]

I’ve known a beautiful young lady at my church for several years now. Her name is Samantha, but most of us call her Sam for short. When so many families left the church two summers ago in the split, Sam lost some friends that she adored. I know it was pretty hard on her. Not [...]

Today is my birthday. I’m planning to spend the day with quilting buddies at an all-day sewing event so Hubby, the boys, and my in-laws celebrated at dinner last night. The cake was delicious! Hubby had a baker make it and she calls it canolli cake. I’ll be enjoying that for some time to come. [...]

Captain Earthquake climbed up on the couch with Hubby a little while ago, and just chatted away with his dad about motorcycles and bullets and important boy things.  Eventually I joined them, and the Captain was blissful, getting the full attention and affection of both parents all to himself.  He was so happy that when [...]