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 of a deep sleep, “should […]
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 […]
My new BFF Michelle is a force to be reckoned with. Not only did she write a fab article for Segullah today, but she is the featured story on Shutterfly. She makes me green with envy because of her writing and especially her photography skills. But she’s such a sweetie I can’t really hate her […]
I don’t know what it is about makeup but a lot of times I’ll find a product I really like, then a couple of months later I start searching for a new “holy grail”. (In case you weren’t familiar with this, the term “Holy Grail” is a term completely accepted… Read More
I’m wild about polka dots. I love them always, on everything. Polka dot nail art was the first thing I wanted to learn how to do when I started getting more into nail design a couple of years ago. I would read all these nail blogs and wonder how in… Read More
Dear School That My Children Attend, First of all, today is the last day of school before Christmas vacation. Thus it is my last day to run errands child-free. You have scheduled my child’s class party for 9 am. Just because all the other parents take their children home as soon as the party ends, […]
Last Tuesday we said our final goodbyes to India and York as they head off to be missionaries in São Paulo, Brazil. It’s been surreal. Super surreal. I’ve felt like I need to spend every second with them even though they would much rather hang out with friends, not their… Read More
This was probably the lamest day of our trip. It started out well, though. Of course we stopped by the Fête du Pain as we did every morning. We ate all our deliciousness on our way to Sainte-Chapelle, the little jewel-box of a church on the same island as Notre… 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
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 […]
On our first day of the Wild West Car Trip we got up at 5 am and hit the road trying to reach Phoenix by the end of the day. In case you haven’t driven from central Texas to Arizona let me tell you, it’s boring. There are a few… Read More
We’re have a super gigantic Thanksgiving this year with all of Mister’s family. His dad’s got a big birthday coming up during the season so we’ll all be gathering to pay homage. I was asked to provide the birthday cake, two pies and sweet potatoes. Wait . . . what?… Read More
Have you been hearing all the brouhaha about the movie American Sniper and how the US military referred to the people in Iraq as savages? I don’t even watch TV and I keep hearing about it. To me this is very interesting because I’ve known loads of Iraqis. I grew up in Detroit which has […]
Like you’re actually going to be reading a blog today. But just in case you find yourself with some free time on Christmas Eve, here’s a rundown of what I did yesterday (which is still Tuesday in my head since I haven’t gone to sleep yet). Let me just say that my favorite thing about […]