A friend who is aware of my hobby of looking at wedding pictures online, asked me to use my accumulated Wedding Fu and help her come up with design ideas for her sister's wedding. To think that this utterly worthless time-wasting practice has actually yielded something useful to someone ... Wow!

The first thing I do when I wake up is make the bed, then I go around and open the blinds and a few windows (because it's been a nice temperature lately, can't do it much in the summer or the winter), and these days, start a cup of tea ( Read more... )

Guess what? I got my tax return! I just renewed my guard card, paid my car registration, renewed my AAA membership, (which more than paid for itself this year), and paid a few other pressing bills. It's a delicious, breezy 72 degrees outside, nothing but blue skies with the occasional whisp of cloud. Tonight, Jimmy's dad - who is visiting from ( Read more... )

The kids' grandfather, Ken, sent the girls home last weekend with a new toy: a V Smile Pocket. Bless that man. I'd kiss him right on the lips except ... EWWWWW! *ptui* *ptui ( Read more... )

I could have sworn we had a bag of unpopped corn. I guess the popcorn ball dream dies until next year ( Read more... )

I always wake up a little disappointed that reality has come calling again. But I blunder out of bed and get on with the business of my day, which is composed essentially of the business of everyone else in this house ( Read more... )

We're hoooooome. Fresh excitement from Alex about the new school, the playground is apparently cooler and she likes her new teacher even more. One of James' new friends gave him a mechanical pencil, and he's marvelling over it in a very business-like fashion while he does his math. Rachel's hair is looking better, (I washed it this morning with ( Read more... )

The kids are gone for ... well, probably until Friday ( Read more... )

Rachel suddenly spiked a fever last night for no reason I can discern. The only other symptom she's complained of is a sore throat. This morning her fever is lower, but not gone. At least she's kept her fever reducer down. And she actually ate her eggs and juice at breakfast, when I thought she probably wouldn't want more than toast ( Read more... )

1. Yesterday evening, after a couple of weeks of watching Michaela do it, and saying, "Oh no, you didn't!" I, too, broke down and ran on the treadmill. Well, perhaps jogged is a better word for what I was doing. But I did it for three whole minutes. I think I could have gone even longer, but I was at the end of my treadmill time anyway so I ( Read more... )