I must be crazy because it's 11:27 pm and I'm not asleep. In fact, I'm the only person in my house who isn't. But my mind isn't rested yet. Loopy, but not quite out. I just spent an hour and a half frantically uploading photographs from June 2012 through February 2013 onto Shutterfly and then ordering them because at midnight, the 40% off...Read More

Now that I'm several weeks into marathon training,  I thought I'd do a post to update you on my progress. Using the LR Marathon Training plan, we're in the 9th week of training. The Marathon is March 1st, 2015.  Using the Non-Runner's Marathon Trainer (what I set out with the intent to follow), then I'm officially in my 1st week of training.  Since...Read More

A few Saturdays ago, we headed downtown to SoMa (South Main....) for the Cheese Dip Festival. We had free tickets and heck, why not?   I'm not a super expert at cheese dip - I rarely indulge, but it was worth a trip!  Brooklyn immediately found a face painting table and requested, of all things, an American Flag. I think perhaps it was...Read More

Every now and then we homeschoolers do something outside the house which ties nicely into what we're learning. AKA - field trip. Now if I were more social, I'd team up with other moms and their kids, but usually I take the loner approach and head out by myself. Well, me and the four kiddos. So I'm not really all that much alone,...Read More

On October 21st, Kyle and I celebrated our 14th year of marriage.  We've passed the 7 year itch mark twice, with no signs of any itches. We are extremely happily married, and in today's world, I realize more and more how rare and wonderful that is. To celebrate our anniversary, which fell in the middle of the week, we decided to do something...Read More