and probably have a houseful of crabby children who stayed up too late sorting their candy, but you really need to get out and stock up on your medicine. Remember that whole food storage thing? Yeah, today’s your last day. So toodle on over to the store (I can even begrudge you a trip to […]
Our Big Tour of the South started out on July 3. The dates we could be gone were strictly dictated by a fancy choir that India is in this summer. She was allowed to miss no more than three rehearsals or she would be sacked. So we had to… Read More I’m back from our […]
I can’t tell you how much I am digging this “all my kids in school” thing. You should know by now that housework is not my favorite thing to do. I’m not one of those lame people who says that and then spends all her time cleaning anyway. No, I… Read More I just saw my […]
School just ended for us on Friday and this last week was a killer. I barely had time to catch my breath. My favorite part of the end-of-the-year festivities was going to see the silent movies made by Ada’s second grade Theatre Arts class. They learned about silent films and… Read More Mister finally bought a […]
It is 5:11 AM. My alarm clock should be going off in a few minutes. I have been up for half an hour, though. Why? Let me give you the transcript: Mister: Jennie? Jennie, are you awake? Me: [I can hear him and actually think as I’m coming out… Read More Talk about famous! My […]
You probably have one of those rooms in your house that was OK a few years ago and you frankly haven’t given it another thought since then. That was my living room. When we moved into our house ten years ago (a record for us as the most time ever… Read More
I posted over at Segullah today about Food Storage. I’m going to put my post up over here too, because this coming Monday is going to be the grand kick-off of Jennie’s Food Storage Item-of-the-Week and we might need a little motivation. I did this a couple of years ago and people are still asking […]
Whether you are Mormon or not, it’s a pretty interesting phenomenon that we are pretty much the only church that wears skirts/dresses to church exclusively, but wears pants the rest of the time (Orthodox Jews, Fundamentalist Christians, Amish: the women wear dresses all the time. If you aren’t one of these than you can wear […]
Dear Universe,I am practicing The Secret. I am willing myself to win this trip to Paris. Because wouldn’t it be awesome to take my baby girl there for her 16th birthday? My only question is this: What if I’m practicing The Secret and someone else is also practicing The Secret… Read More This week we will […]
Take a look around. This blog as you know it will be evolving soon. The Blog Fairy has worked her magic and the grand unveiling of my new blog (at a new location, no less!) will be happening presently. I have a cute new picture, courtesy of The Lucky Red… Read More I finally have a […]
I was at the library last week and thought I would be nice and check out a movie for the kids. I know they are fans of the entire Spy Kids oeuvre so I rented Spy Kids II (or was it Spy Kids III or IV? As if there is… Read More Whew! What a Christmas! […]
New Year’s Resolutions? Normally I say “no thanks!”. But this year I’ve got a secret weapon. Read about it over at Segullah. By Hildie | Filed under Uncategorized 1 Comment Share We were walking along and saw a bed. In the woods. So I had Mister take a picture of me on it. That is […]
I originally wrote this series of blog posts as a “look what we did” sort of thing. But I keep having people ask questions about our trip because they’ll be doing something similar and want some advice. So I’ve decided to make these posts heavy on details. I know most of you won’t care and […]
We started off our third day in London by eating a lovely breakfast made at home. I was particularly in love with this egg carton we got at the grocery store around the block. We then headed from our place in Russell Square . . . . . . to Leicester Square (I thought everyone […]