Archive for January, 2008

Oh, the Agony. I might be close to my Britney moment. I swear that anytime now you will be hearing about the crazy dawkters wife in MN who shaved her head and ran off to Mexico with her pool boy Sven while speaking with a British accent. Not to poke fun at Britney, who... »

Phew… It’s only -10F with the wind chill factor. This is almost balmy compared to recent days. Yesterday, the kids were granted a two hour delay because the temperatures dipped down to ~-44F. Brrrr. But as Alex was waiting for the school bus, it was still -32F. MINUS 32. Unbelievable. How that is better than... »

It’s -34F here right now with the wind chill factor figured into things. I’m not kidding. Sporting events like indoor ice hockey have been cancelled because basically, people should just be staying indoors. But this morning when it was -40F with the wind chill….well, school was in session. It was deemed perfectly safe for... »

“We saw porn in Theology today” Those were the first words out of Andrew’s mouth when I picked him up from school yesterday. They have been covering “sex ed” for the last couple of weeks and this appears to be an uncomfortable topic for him. Apparently, they watched a video that talked about love and... »

We picked up the van yesterday afternoon. Yeah! The funny thing about it is that I had to leave to pick up Amanda from school, call Andrew’s school and tell him I’d be 30 minutes late and for him to sit in the library and do his homework, swing by the hospital and pick up Thomas... »

I’ve got a few minutes for a mid-week update. It’s been so crazy here because we put my van in the shop Tuesday morning and opted to avoid getting a rental car. Since Thomas’ car only has 5 seats, it means that I have to leave by 6:55am to get Andrew and Amanda to... »

In the spirit of taking control of this Zoo again, I hit the ground running today. After Aidan’s preschool conference, I got the kitchen cleaned up, made my bed and did some general picking up and laundry folding. That sounds like what I should be doing every day, and it is…but I haven’t been... »

You know you’ve hit the psychological winter ‘wall’ when the ice and snow on your driveway jump up and tear off your bumper… …or you go out into the garage to grab the 12 pack of pop that you left outside to discover that the cans have exploded and the temperature is... »

Wow. It’s been nearly two weeks since I last updated. I just can’t find the time to get online and catch up with everyone lately…and my brother downloaded poker software to my laptop that has caused the computer to run at 80% physical memory (and sometimes more ). The end of the holidays... »

Is it really already 2008? I can’t believe that Christmas and New Years are already a memory. My Christmas cards are still sitting without the addresses and I never did get all of my decorations up…Now it’s time to take them down. We have kicked off 2008 in true Math family fashion: The check engine light... »