Posts under ‘Daily Life’

Thanks for visiting! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed using the feedburner link to the right. When we walked to our door after Sunday church we found this insect right beside the door frame.
Only the fact that my children were with me prevented my scream from escaping.

It’s [...]

Some days I just need to get back to basics and remember to be thankful.  In other words, the blog post I was planning to write flew out of my head and I remembered that XBOX wife has this carnival on Tuesdays.

Right now I praise the Lord for..

this beautiful fall day with plenty of sunshine.
our [...]

I enjoy going to the hair salon with my two girls.
Right now I’m imagining all you extra frugal mothers out there gasping.  Yes, I pay to have my little girls hair cut.

It’s a fun girl time.
It costs about $30.00 every 8 weeks, and that includes getting my eyebrows waxed.  Plus, she curls the girl’s hair [...]

My husband has loved me through many ups and downs.  He loves me when I’m happy, when I’m not happy, and when I’m worse than not happy.
He loves me when I bake him cookies, and when he can’t find a place on the counter to sit his cup.
He loves me when I have the house [...]

First I did Six Non-important Things in a terrible wordy way then I posted Six Really Unimportant Things in a brief way.  Now I’ve been tagged by Katina and Janet to do it again. 

When eating pasta my favorite noodles are angel hair, but my husband’s are rigatoni.  So we cook a variety of pastas.
I’m [...]

Do you have problems with certain words?  I do.
One of them is USB port.  If I don’t think about it I say SUB port.
After I fool around and say that I was snoveling show it’s hard to say it the right way.
This morning I asked my husband if he had a shimmy.
After he laughed at [...]

Just here to say Hello, Good-bye.
Thanks so much for stopping by.
This week has been busy, sigh.
Late work nights for my guy
Means more kid time for me, oh my.
And basically my brain is fried-
At least on the creative thinking side.

We had an offer on our house this past week!
But it stalled.
A lot of lookers, then quiet, now back to a bunch of showings again.
Lord knows.

Found a great article through a friend on Twitter -
Psst! A Secret to Scheduling Success! by Cindy Rushton
I, like her, don’t do well with a minute by minute schedule.  It just makes me frustrated and cranky.  I know you can hardly believe that I ever get cranky.  Ha-ha-ha.
One thing she said really grabbed my attention.
One [...]

It’s been raining slow and steady all morning.

It makes me want to sleep.
Therefore my brain refuses to work.
Now is when I should reach into the resources of post ideas already started in my notebook and whip out a wonderful post.
Not happening.  Sorry.  I’d say “So sue me,” but it’s just not very nice, and I [...]