My boys, especially the nine-year old, are getting to the point where they can put away some food! And when I pick them up from school in the afternoon’s they are SO hungry that they break out the drama and act like there is no way they will make it home before perishing since I…
A picture, a thousand words, you know the saying
I mean seriously people. This kid. She picked out everything she is wearing herself. I take NO credit. And as I took this photo she said to me “Put your hands up, Mama!!” Can I put my bathing suit on first, please? She had a bow in her hair for a bit (thatdidnotmatchanything), to keep…
#AD Be a Hunger Hero with Tyson & Sam’s Club!
I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias and their client. I recently decided that some evenings around here are going to be “easy” dinner nights (plus with school and all the extra activities starting it…
Clashing
I woke up Sunday morning with a dream right on the edge of recall. I was all dressed up and alone in a hotel bar, waiting for Tim. We were supposed to be going to a wedding reception together and I sat alone nursing my cocktail while watching others around me with scrutiny. One woman…
School Days
I will always remember my third-grade program. Beneath the harsh neon lights of the cafeteria stage I sang my heart out to the song “Calendar Girls”. The stinky boy right in front of me told me I sang to loud. I replied “too bad”. I had a little solo and was so happy to sing…
By Searching
So… Sometimes I look at the stats for this here blog. Yeah, yeah, you know you do it too. I think it’s kinda fun just to look at what people search for that brings them to my little space on the big ole inter-webby. Many times it’s just general stuff, like my blog name or…
Almond Chocolate Cherry Clusters
I like to eat chocolate. A lot. I also really like things that only take a few ingredients to make. Like these: I actually found this little recipe in a magazine a few years ago and adapted it just a bit. There’s not much you can change on a three-ingredient recipe but I managed it….
Old School Blogging, August
Well kids, we are changing things up here a bit this month and asking for pictures (and words, if you like) of your FRIDGE. What is on that bad boy? You got pictures? Lists? Kid art that is just TOO fabulous to toss? Christmas cards from two years ago? Birth announcements of kids that are…
Chicago Through my Lens
On the Saturday afternoon of my trip to BlogHer in Chicago, I had to get out and use my camera, much like the first time I was there in 2009. There were many brides out that day, in Millennium Park and the weather was amazing, only 64 degrees. That’s unheard of in summer where I…
I know someone else at the gym wants my body too…
There is a woman who belongs to my gym/club that has a super rockin’ body. Whenever she is in front of me on any apparatus in the large cardio room then I am guaranteed to watch her for a bit. My eyes gravitate towards her. And don’t lie to yourself (or me) and tell me…