I don’t know who, exactly, these two gentlemen are, but their legacies are the most popular topic around our house. You may have a vague remembrance of Ripley’s Believe it or Not and The Guiness Book of World Records. I remember the former being a somewhat creepy and perplexing show hosted by Jack Palance. I […]
Short for Big Fat Liar. Why? Because at the crack of dawn (before that actually) Mister was leaving for work and said to me, “can you hang up my clothes that are in the dryer? Don’t forget!” Because the children are out of school today (three day vacation, heaven only knows why), I was fast […]
Once your kids start leaving for college, you do go broke, but there are pluses as well. Namely an extra bedroom yearning to become a craft room slash sewing room slash art studio (depending on my mood). The recently-vacated bedroom in my house is located right next to the kitchen (an awful place for a […]
Oh, it’s summer all right. How do I know? We’ve spent four of the last seven days at the neighborhood pool and the sweat is at a constant trickle down my back. And I can tell by my toenails. It’s time to bust out the crazy pedicures. All the better for sandals, my dear.
I have nothing at all to say today. So that means it’s time for pictures, everybody! I was going through iphoto and realized that we did a lot of fun things this summer that I never blogged about. Here is a sampler: A chain-link fence is strong enough to keep in a tiger, right? Right??? […]
In case you hadn’t heard, Texas is hot. Fortunately I live in central Texas which is much less humid than Houston or Dallas. But that hardly matters since it’s been so unbelievably scorchy lately. Usually there are 11 days of 100º + temperatures each summer. Last year there were three. This year there have been […]
Once your kids start leaving for college, you do go broke, but there are pluses as well. Namely an extra bedroom yearning to become a craft room slash sewing room slash art studio (depending on my mood). The recently-vacated bedroom in my house is located right next to the kitchen (an awful place for a […]
This is a post about some of the random things rattling around in my life right now. There is a man with no teeth fixing my roof. He was quite charming and persuasive and I couldn’t resist his sales pitch even though I’m really into teeth. He informed me that he has “an eagle’s eye”, so […]
I’ll be posting all the successful 72-hour kit participants on Monday, so try to wrap it up and let me know by then. Post your report here. Also I saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button last night and it was goooood. Very highly recommended. Mister loved it too. He was totally wiping his eyes […]
If you’ve got a houseful of bored people or just wish you lived someplace snowy, this is the perfect craft. You can’t very well go skiing on paper snowflakes but they add a nice wintery touch your house long after the Christmas decorations have been put away. They are also very addictive to make. Our […]
I have nothing at all to say today. So that means it’s time for pictures, everybody! I was going through iphoto and realized that we did a lot of fun things this summer that I never blogged about. Here is a sampler: A chain-link fence is strong enough to keep in a tiger, right? Right??? […]
Once your kids start leaving for college, you do go broke, but there are pluses as well. Namely an extra bedroom yearning to become a craft room slash sewing room slash art studio (depending on my mood). The recently-vacated bedroom in my house is located right next to the kitchen (an awful place for a […]
You might not believe this since I’m the mother of six, but it’s is my first year being a soccer mom. I’ve avoided the stigma of soccer mom-dom for many years, for the same reasons that many mothers refuse to drive minivans: you feel like you have lost every bit of cool-ness and are now […]
Since I have a few readers who are related to me and actually want to see pictures of my kids, here they are. Sorry everybody else. I know that Halloween pics are a big snooze-fest. (Many apologies to York. He went trick-or-treating with a friend and I forgot to take pictures before he left.) […]