I know I am a jumpy person. I could blame it on growing up in Texas, where the occasional scorpion or more common fire ant made you wary. Lots of things are poisonous there. I brought home a present from Texas once, and apparently rode with a black widow spider all the way back to Michigan. That still gives me the willies just thinking about it.
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JD has really taken a shine to reading lately. Not just paging through his board books, but actually bringing me books and telling me “wead!” True to his age, he really enjoys the same book over and over and over. I have read “Where Is Baby’s Pumpkin?” so many times in the past two days it has gone from cute to “good grief, let me dig out our old flap books for a change of pace”.
Category: Education & Learning, Humor, KIds (2, 3 & 4), Kids (5 & Older), Parenting
We have taken to having our dinner outdoors. It’s nice to eat under the shade tree, and whatever JD drops, the chickens clean up for me, so it’s rather win-win. Plus dinner tends to coincide with what I call the “witching hour”.
Category: Fitness & Goals, Health, Life's Lessons, Parenting, SAHM
I was talking with my sister recently, and she commented “we sure do know how to make some work for ourselves, don’t we?” I laughed at the time, but that phrase haunted me for a few weeks.
Category: Decorating, Gardening & Fix Ups, Humor, Life's Lessons, SAHM
My final round of trashy magazines hit my mailbox last week. The special price had ended, and let’s face it: without the Stephen King column in the one, I really had no reason to get it. We get to see a movie on the big screen maybe once a year, not counting free kids movies or “must see” kids movies.
Category: Fashion & Style, Fitness & Goals, Health, Life's Lessons, Parenting, SAHM, Self-Actualization
