Clean Freak Mama took a summer vacation, but with the first day of school a week away,…she’s baaack! My grandmother even commented on the messiness of my house the other day. “I didn’t think you were normal–always having a clean house.” Well, normal is not something I ever want to be. As if I could […]
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Cleaning Up
I have family visiting from Texas right now. Yeah, they came to the Pacific Northwest to get away from the rain! I’ll be adding quite a few Recent Reads to the side column and giving longer descriptions of the books, but I want to post a line from Jane Kirkpatrick‘s A Tendering in the Storm, […]
A Bit of Fun
Believe it or not, there’s a reason for every picture! Leave a comment if any of them puzzle you. I spend most of my computer time “working,” so I thought it was time to play.
Piercing: A Post about (Earring) Posts
The Before: The Story: A few weeks ago–actually the last weekend before school was out–I took Andrea to get her ears pierced. She choose a pair of pink earrings and, smiling, climbed up on the stool to await the actual piercing. Why is it we never notice how asymmetrical our faces are until we A) […]
Progress
Even though this will post on Saturday, since I’m typing at the end of my day (2 A.M.) on Friday, I’m considering “today” yesterday. 😉 Today’s been a day of amazing progress. Only the second day of summer and my son has already learned how to ride his bike. Last night, as I was watering […]
Winning Family Feud
As I posted in my last blog, my family won on Family Feud. Jill Elizabeth Nelson asked if that put us on Easy Street. I’m sure she was completely serious and I will answer as such. 🙂 It was a complete God thing. I remember praying in the car in the parking lot just before […]
The Envelope, Please
More than two weeks ago, Joshua had his blood drawn for allergy testing. And the winner is… drum roll…. Everything we eat. Wheat including gliadin and gluten. All dairy products, even casein and goat’s milk. Both the white and yolk of eggs. If you peeked into my kitchen, one glance would be all you’d need […]
Bob Barker Would Be Proud
We got a kitten last year. The mother cat’s family said they called the little girl “Squeaks” because she always squeaked for her mommy to come back to the basket. We took the kitten to the vet for a check up and found out surprising news. She was a he. To remind ourselves of the […]
Eleventh Anniversary
Friday was our 11th anniversary, which conveniently fell on a Friday. We went out for Mexican, my choice, and to see The Shooter, a joint decision. I wish I’d brought a click counter to keep track of all the dead bodies. At the very end of what turned out to be an explosive vigilante movie, […]
Bucketless At Last
To understand the title of this post, you have to scroll down to the picture on the last post. Joshua lost about a tenth of his body weight, I’m afraid, during this illness. I took him to school on Wednesday–mainly because he hadn’t thrown up since Sunday and I was worried he might actually absorb […]