Archive for March, 2008

sigh. This has been such a hard winter for me and I feel like I have literally just been hanging on for dear life! I keep trying to stay positive and right now…it’s just not there. So…you have been forewarned. Tuesday, the older kids went back to school. This kicked off the daily drive-a-thons, homework... »

Phew…It’s been a long time since I’ve updated or really been online. Things have been so busy lately with the kids staggered Spring Breaks and everyone being sick. It’s been like watching a house of cards slowly fall down card by card. I think the hardest part of it was the... »

Yesterday when I was driving into the garage, a spider glided down onto the hood of my van. Forget the obvious yuck factor. (Ummm…a SPIDER landed on the hooded of my van!) The only thought that crossed my mind was: SPRING. Spring is coming. If it warm enough... »

What a wild and yucky week we’ve all had. I had three kids home sick with a flu-like illness all week…. Alex was a trooper. He really entertained himself and laid around a lot until he felt better. Zoe has been…her typical energizer bunny self. Despite feeling ‘yucky’ and coughing... »

Thomas and I laid in bed tonight and watched the movie “Martian Child”. It’s a great story about a widower who adopts a troubled child. At one point during the film, as he was struggling to come to terms with the loss of his wife, and working towards adopting a little boy... »

Why is it so hard to adjust to the start of a new week? The weekend just goes by too fast for me. This morning was particularly hard on all of us because we didn’t really set our sleep clocks forward. We slept in on Sunday and then we all stayed up later than... »

It’s beautiful, soft, fluffy, white….there is a gentle breeze…. We just left our neighborhood card club and walked home after a fun night of playing 500 and catching up with our neighbors. As we all headed out into the night, the complaints started. I tried to point out the positive:... »

  I’ve had…a pretty good day. Hectic, but good. Besides the regular chaos of taking kids around, I also met up with a good friend for lunch. Good friend. Important words. She and I actually met when I first moved to the area and our friendship grew quickly out of shared interests and personalities. Problems only... »

If I don’t start going to church regularly, someone should put me over their knee and give me a good paddling. I’m not sure why, but I feel like I’m having some sort of unusual religious experience. I kind of brushed off running into the two women at B&N the other night …. Today... »

When you watch an episode of “The secret life of a soccer mom” on TLC from the edge of your seat…and cry with the harried mom of three who has a chance for a week to live out her dream job and is then…offered a full-time position at her dream company. (Ok,... »