So this happened today…


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When I was a kid we only did fundraisers for school when we were going on a special trip for class or something. School just began and both of my school aged children have brought home fundraisers for their school. I know, school funding is no where near adequate, but the crap they sell is expensive crap and when I tell my 2nd grader no she gets ( Read more... )

Summer vacation is coming to an end. School clothes and supplies have broken the bank and made my wallet weep. New teachers have been met and old teachers have been hugged. Mom is counting down the seconds until school begins.

Yes, I have three 4-year olds still at home during the day; but I find myself yelling at the older two more than I am ( Read more... )

My mom lives with us. She kinda has to since we tore her house down and built this house in it’s place. Since we’re doing this whole new house thing without taking out loans we ran out of money and steam power to build more before we got to the garage with her apartment on top. Until we build her this magical apartment she lives with us in one of ( Read more... )

I’ll come up with a title later. Just like I’ll come up with a coherent blog post. Neither one of those things are going to turn out like I want them. Instead - verbal vomit!

I open up the Add New Post link and I want to write. I want to get all of this stuff that’s buzzing around in my head out. Some of it really shouldn’t be shared out on the ( Read more... )

Today my son, Ethan, would have been 8 years old. I constantly wonder what he would’ve been like.


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Man, that sounds like diarrhea.

This is the first year (I think) since NaBloPoMo started that I am not posting every day for the month of November. I have a hard enough time posting something just once a month, let alone every single day in a month. Sure, I could use this month to get myself back into the writing mood, but I’m not.

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This weekend is the unofficial end of Summer. Tuesday, the older kids go back to school and the little kids are left with just me to torture play with. Suddenly the weather is cooling down and the sun is setting at a half decent time. (If you have young children you know what I mean. The kids, they don’t want to go to sleep when there is still a ( Read more... )

I mow the lawn. I hate mowing the lawn, but it has to be done. James has really bad allergies (or so he says) so he can’t mow the lawn without his eyes swelling shut and looking like he pulled an all nighter with a keg of beer.

Our new yard is easily four times the size of our old lawn. It’s a familiar lawn. I grew up mowing this lawn. Back when I ( Read more... )

When your kids are wee little things it is easy to blow about whatever cute little thing that they did the day to make you laugh so hard that you nearly pissed yourself. When they hot the puberty stage of life things get a little more complicated. They start turning away from you because you’re dumb and they are not. Duh. They start to internalize ( Read more... )