Me - high pitched girly scream
Spider - What!?  I’m just hanging here.  Lady, you are outside, this is MY domain.
Me - Will you stick around for just a second so that I can go get my camera and take a picture of you?
Spider - Sure, why not. Is the lighting good over here? Or would [...]

[Read more →]

Scene: In the van, on the way home from school, feeling mighty happy about the quality of education my kids are getting.
Nathaniel: Mom?
Me: Yeah  < — do you hear that quality mom dialogue?  Oh yeah. Listen and learn, my friends.
Nathaniel: What is a serial killer?
Me:  Huh?  What the heck are they teaching you at that [...]

[Read more →]

Every year I give Peter to his mistress.  She comes in the late summer and stays until winter.  She is coy and fickle, leaving him often frustrated and angry, but few things bring him greater exhilaration.
I share this with you now because the NFL season is about to start.  And I am about to say [...]

[Read more →]

We are officially a trophy family.
That makes my kids trophy kids.
I get to be a trophy wife.  Heh!
Ok, so REALLY? We are a trophy-painting family.  In preparation for the Cure Kids Cancer Challenge benefiting the Pediatric Cancer Foundation in September, the kids and I joined some other local families all too familiar with the childhood [...]

[Read more →]

I’m making another big leap into the world of blogging and have built another website that will allow me to try my hand at something new.
I now have a review blog, where I can seek out cool stuff and great sales, review products and finds and share them with anyone who’s a shopping junkie like [...]

[Read more →]