Happy New Year!
on Jan 4, 2009 in misc grateful happy I hope your holidays have been filled with joy! What is better than a macaroni angel on your tree? Not much! It is hard for me to contemplate taking down our tree.... I will miss the ornaments my children have made... Tell me you don't think th

Christmas Lights and Music
on Dec 23, 2008 in childhood memories Christmas As I bake I think back to the Christmases of my youth. I remember lying on the floor under the Christmas tree. I would lay there and stare up at the pretty colored lights. My sister and brother would practice Christmas songs on the piano. I was p...

Benign!
on Dec 21, 2008 in misc grateful happy health Benign is such a beautiful word. I have learned that the worrisome spot that I had biopsied is BENIGN! YAY! I was worried because my normally optimistic dermatologist gave me less than super odds.... we play this game, he and I. As he cuts away a...

Auto Rescue Plan
on Dec 12, 2008 in misc political I will not continue to rant on the auto situation, but what I will add to my previous post is that I completely understand that there is waste in that industry and that there are people who are overpaid (and that the jobs bank needed to go!). I stil...

Biopsies & Cars
on Dec 11, 2008 in misc political hoopty health Biopsy seems to be the word of the week. I got mine yesterday -- a sun damaged spot on my upper back / shoulder / neck area. I only had to have a small number of stitches (3 I think?) but it pulls quite a bit when I move my right arm. Ew. I went...

Lesson Learned?
on Dec 9, 2008 in loco hoopty It seemed like the perfect plan. I needed to take the kids to school earlier this year because they are both in middle school. It is difficult to share a bathroom with 2 pre-teens (AKA tweens), so I fell into the habit of taking them to school befo...

Updates as we march on...
on Dec 5, 2008 in grateful kids menopause? hot flash sleep dad pain It has been a crazy week and I'm not sleeping. For some reason I am waking every half an hour to an hour... no reason, I just wake up and look at the clock and think, "Why?" This has activated my pain which makes typing an exercise in tes