Posted in Uncategorized on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »
What the crap is the deal with the snow?
My little boy who came to daycare came over this morning (to re-meet us since it’d been awhile) because he was going to hang out with us tonight while his mom was at a meeting. Now it’s cancelled due to the FREAKING! SNOW! THAT! WILL! NOT! STOP! [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Did I mention my son has mad puzzle putting together skills? He does. Yesterday afternoon we sat on the floor in his room and puzzled away. He put them all together.
He’s impatient. If he can’t get them in the first few tries he whines and tries to make me do it. I make him do [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well the Des Moines discussion is over. My husband and yesterday talked to a mortgage company about buying my grandparents house in Indianola. We’re coming home.
My husband will be working remotely. At this point he’d like to work in an office, do some sort of co-working thing, so we’ll see how that works out.
It’s an [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Okay, so maybe Derek and I over pummeled the public school system a little. Well…at least saying a lot of parents don’t care. In the interest of covering all sides, I wanted to post this article from our MOM’s blog…how funny is it our MOM has a blog.
Bullying Teachers in Florida
I [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on March 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
First DEREK I LOVE IT. I hope you know that when discussions like this come up, one of us always says, “I wonder what Derek would say.” You rock the cashbah. You are right, we do enjoy a good debate, and as such - here is the rebuttal.
Homeschooling is very popular among conservative, fundamentalist Christians.
Good [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
WARNING - POLITICALLY CHARGED POST BELOW
I don’t think it’s any secret that I am mostly a conservative leaning person politically. I don’t think it’s any secret that I love Jesus either. This article is HEAVILY right sided, so beware if you’re not swinging that way….I’ve warned you.
http://www.homeschoolmarketplace.com/e-zines/ejournalmar2508.html
For Christian homeschooling families in California this is a [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
So the wee one has this train table. My parents got it for Christmas and it’s the source of HOURS of joy for my little one and my husband. A two year old however does not know you have to not mess with the track in order to play with it, so my husband glued [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
That’s right. It’s my birthday Sunday. Don’t act like you didn’t know. So it’s officially my birthday week.
Yep. *WHOO*
We’re heading south this weekend, and spending it in Iowa. I’m excited, my peeps are going to hang with me, and I’m happy. Birthday COMPLETE.
Talks in the “Moving Debacle” have come to a head. We’ve received some [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Well I just marinated the ham, got the potatoes ready. Baked a chocolate cake, a cherry coffee cake, and apple coffee cake FROM SCRATCH. The boy’s Grandma will be here at 11, and Easter is ON my friends.
My favorite part - getting the house ready for company took like FIVE minutes. The house was strewn [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2008 | No Comments »
This morning I went out to smoke (I KNOW - more on that later) and the world is COLD AND SNOWY.
Um hello? If there is snow on the ground on my birthday, I’m going to be MAD. No. My birthday means spring, warm, happy time. NO MORE SNOW.
I am so happy today. SO HAPPY. I [...]
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