Five years ago today, terrorists tried to tear our nation apart. They tried to make us change our beliefs, to turn against one another, to run. They failed to do these things, although they did manage to take loved ones from us and make us cry . It scared a lot of people at first, but then it united our country. It brought people, who otherwise ( Read more... )

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OK. So, several things to catch up on ( Read more... )

I think my 12 year old son (second oldest) is probably the most stubborn and lazy child I have ever known. Nothing seems to get through to him. Nothing concerns him. He makes no effort to be helpful, for any reason. If he is told to do something, he either does not do it or does it terribly. It makes no difference if he is grounded, yelled at, ( Read more... )

I got my first letter from Junior! I will write what it says below. I am not going to write his full name. I don't think that is proper. There are also a couple of words that I can't make out due to the handwriting and I will have to leave those as blanks ( Read more... )

I signed up to sponsor my second child at http://www.worldvision.org the other day. The first one I sponsored is a 7 year old boy in Zambia, the newest is a 4 year old girl in Armenia. They are both absolutely adorable! I have thought about doing something like this for a long time now. ( Read more... )

My violin showed up two days ago. At first I was a bit disappointed because the color was not what I expected from their photos. But it is a gorgeous violin with great inlay work. Granted it is not a ten thousand dollar violin, but it is very nice for the $260 I paid. Well worth that and much more ( Read more... )

I have decided that I am going to learn to play the violin. I always wanted to learn when I was younger, but my parents never did take interest in anything I wanted to try. Now that I am an adult and still have an interest in learning, I figure why not. I guess I will be trying to teach myself using the internet, books, CD's and DVD's. I would like ( Read more... )

Is there some sort of time bomb in our bodies that goes off after a certain age? I never had a problem with weight in my life, other than when I was pregnant and retained water and swelled up like a giant balloon. Afterward I went back to the normal. I never had a problem getting rid of it or being in shape. Now it seems in the last year my body ( Read more... )

A week or so ago I told the story about what happened with that rude woman at the laundry room. I am thinking I just need to start sending my husband to do the laundry or something. I had to put up with yet another rude person yesterday in there. What is up with this laundry room ( Read more... )