I really like Pinterest. And FYI, I liked it way before all of you. I liked it back when I had to explain what it was to everyone. To me, Pinterest is a really handy place to keep track of all the cool/yummy/pretty things on the internet that I had previously been tucking into messy […]
I spent the day yesterday at the rodeo for Arabella’s second grade field trip. (“Rodeo” is something of a misnomer; it’s simply a fair and sometimes a rodeo is going on too). We got to watch pig racing, which was as great as it sounds. Although the spoiled little boy sitting next to me kept […]
Remember how we bought water a couple of weeks ago? Well, this is the perfect thing to go with it. Whether it’s Lemonade mix, Kool-aid or Crystal Light, this is great to have on hand in case you are left drinking water that maybe doesn’t taste so great (our tap water is dreadful in the […]
You might think that when you have a big family, you have pictures of kids everywhere. The sad truth is that there are a very overwhelming number of photographs to deal with. Then there is always one child who is completely unphotogenic and you can’t very well have pictures of some children up and not […]
Pardon me while I commit suicide. Haagen-Dazs has discontinued my favorite flavor: Fleur de Sel Caramel. Why? Why? Why? Couldn’t they at least have warned me? I would have stockpiled if only I’d known! Everything on the news has been about recessions and health care when the real issues like discontinuing the best flavor of […]
When I was growing up if I saw something European at the grocery store I would almost always buy it. This was back in the day when Evian was considered exotic and nobody had even heard of Nutella. Nowadays you can find American knock-offs of most foreign products but my… Read More
At our house we don’t give our kids an allowance. Many years ago we started to but it just got too expensive. Plus it would kill me when they’d spend our hard-earned money on a giant bucket of Red Vines. I’m not one of those moms who tells their kids… Read More
Welcome to my first video how-to! (Do I have to tell you how much I hate my voice?) This is a tutorial on one of the most common problems in everybody’s house: a leaky toilet that’s constantly running. This is such a super easy problem to fix. Anybody can do… Read More
Our car trip around the South continued on from western North Carolina to the eastern part of the state–to the farm of our friends, the Browns. Heather and Craig Brown (and especially their kids) were good friends of ours when we all lived in Utah. They have since moved to… Read More
This is my review of the new movie Inception: me: [the entire first hour] I have no idea what is going on. me: [the second hour] OK, I kind of get what is going on. me: [the last half hour] Wait, I have no idea what is going on again. Also, Ellen Page must be […]
Halloween: when I’m even more of a witch than normal. My mother is going to bug me until I post some pictures, so I’m just getting it over with. All costumes were homemade this year (except York’s; all I had to get for him was a $4 ski mask. Yesss.) My mom made Arabella […]
Unlike most bloggers these days who have a charmingly dressed toddler and a sweet baby who is constantly and adorably photographed, I have tweens and teens and a couple of grown up kids. We moms of older kids are more of a silent bunch. Not because we don’t have anything to say–quite the opposite! But […]
If someone told me I would start getting zits again as I sauntered into middle age I would have punched them in the face. And then fainted. Because it’s not bad enough that my hair is getting really wimpy and my metabolism has come to a screeching halt. Now I’m getting pimples again like I’m […]
I just got back from the grocery store. I asked Mister to pick up some eggs last night and he did. Then he proceeded to use them all for breakfast this morning. I got breakfast in bed, so I can’t exactly be mean about it. But I was a little peeved about having to trudge […]