This is my year!  I have made it beyond 52 books ( Read more... )

I'm going to make it this year!  One book a week.  52 books.  Here we go ( Read more... )

This past weekend was Andy's first Cub Scouts Indian Pow wow.  (Hence the title of this entry.  And it's true, actually.)  It was an overnight camping trip at the local Boy Scouts camp that required me to buy or borrow a bunch of camping equipment that I didn't have or know I needed until right before the trip.

This was considered a family camping ( Read more... )

`Wayne and I decided earlier this year that we wouldn't have big birthday parties for the kids this year.  We inevitably end up spending a bunch of money and spend a lot of time getting the house together before and afterward and I just haven't wanted to deal with it.  Instead, we decided to give the kids special experiences.  Something fun and ( Read more... )

Disney Fairy Tale Weddings is giving away a free wedding, complete with Cinderella's glass coach to one lucky couple.  Of course, Wayne and I entered.  They only gave us 1000 words to tell our story and that's not nearly enough!  You can vote every 24 hours until the contest ends and we've been trying.  We were, at one point, as high as 9th place, ( Read more... )

I woke up at 6:30 yesterday to drive out to New Jersey to attend an all alumnae reunion at my high school.  My all-girls, Catholic high school ( Read more... )

I'm elbow-deep in the hardcore job searching.  Time is running shorter and shorter to save money for this wedding so I need to be working.  It's not so easy when so many other factors have to be taken into consideration.  I have a certain amount I have to earn as a salary to even make working worth it-  it has to cover daycare (full day for Joey, ( Read more... )

Had a busy but good weekend.  I dropped the boys off at Steve's on Friday and drove home by way of Chipotle.  Lexi and Nathan were feeling better this weekend although Nathan did throw up in Wayne's car.  The poor little guy gets horribly carsick ( Read more... )

My spring cleaning to do list literally covers two sheets of looseleaf notebook paper.  I am just so sick of the clutter and mess.

Top that with the blown over wooden playset issues I am also dealing with and you have one stressed out Juli.


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Maybe it's just that it's been too long?  I swear, before I was a SAHM, I used to have profound thoughts, get engaged in deep conversations and be able to articulate myself in a way that indicated that I had some level of intelligence ( Read more... )