Top Ten

Top Five things I WON’T miss when school begins:

The deluge of cups and food all over the kitchen counters.
Tripping over endless toys throughout the day.
Excessive noise which prevents me from reading and writing effectively.
Endless video games which adds to the excessive noise.
Late night movies which yeah…adds to the excessive noise.

Top Five things I WILL [...]

Mmmmm

My daughter made these today.

Hmmmm I may have to ask her to do this again. For a contest.  What do you think?

Treasure Tuesday–delayed

Wait, today’s not Tuesday? I thought today was Tuesday. It has been for the last, I don’t know, three weeks? Must have lost track of time. No surprise. Well, not in this case. In reality I’ve mastered the art of looking surprised. Practiced for enough birthdays now to…well, last me a hundred years. Or at [...]

A writer’s nightmare

I stumbled out of bed, saw my husband off to work and plopped myself down in my usual morning spot. My computer. I booted up, checked email, sent a few replies and then logged into Google Reader.  Ooooooo, look at all the pretty updated blogs.
*click*
Familiar, yet annoying screen comes up. “We’re sorry. That site has [...]

Children are an inspiration

Funny thing happened yesterday. Yes, so funny it took me until today to write about it. But I was busy. You’ll see why.
So there I was minding my own business (yeah, right I have seven children and a dog–and had two little friends over as well) and was suddenly hit with an epiphany. Well, the [...]