New Laptop!

Have I mentioned how much I hate not having a laptop? I hate it lots. So guess who is getting one for Yule? Yep, me. I put one on layaway at Walmart and informed the family that I didn’t need to get anything else for the holidays and that if they so much as look [...]

Happy Birthday Claire!

Today is my middle daughters’ 10th birthday. This past Sunday we had her party at Canvas, Paint, and Mingle (one of my favorite crafty spots in town!). One of the coolest things was they had chalkboard paint on the wall and they wrote her a birthday wish. We also got to do a little table/wall [...]

A Shift of Needs

Yesterday the kids started school. Sadly the boy said it made him nervous to see my camera so I put it away and got no pictures of the first day.  We spent the morning running them all over the place and getting them started. The middle dd had no problems whatsoever, she even sat and [...]

My Family, The Comedians

Sometimes I think if people actually were flies on the walls they would think we were insane. Most recently my eldest and I took the hubs out for his early birthday dinner, the other two were at the inlaws for several days. Since we didn’t have ALL of us in tow we went to one [...]

Downtime

This week has been full of catching up while managing downtime. Some of you have been awesome about emailing me and I am a bit slower to return them. I feel like I need to explain why. Last week was conference week. And in the middle of that I was leading the public ritual for [...]