Hi everyone!  I've completely gotten out of the habit of posting here.  Bad me!  So what's going on in my world?

Madelyn started 5th grade.  Doesn't 5th grade seem much older than 4th?  She's had a good start to the year.  She's already frustrated with studying but is still doing well.  I've instituted a 30 minute per weeknight limit on TV (except ( Read more... )

I did it!  I bought more userpics.  I just couldn't give up anymore and found some awesome ones in curtana 's pickmybest post.  So I'll be trolling though LJ today finding more awesomeness to add.  If you have any suggestions, let me know. (I'm looking at you utkari02 ).  I chose the icon for this post just for you squishification .

I drove with some friends to Little Rock yesterday.  One ( Read more... )

Yes - I just said Yay! for Monday.  Deal with it ( Read more... )

It’s been such a nice quiet day at work. The students have the day off. Just one more reason to look forward to summer.

This weekend had its ups and downs. I had a Southern Living at Home party on Saturday. I haven’t always had much luck with parties like that. My most supportive friends have been miles away in other cities. But I’ve been lucky to ( Read more... )

This was an interesting weekend.  We cleaned my daughter's room on Saturday.  It was so bad.  When we've told her to clean her room lately, she's apparently been shoving everything under her bed.  We ended up with two big trash bags and a load of laundry when it was all said and done.  New rule - no food in her room.  I'm not going to gross ( Read more... )

Well...this has been an interesting weekend.  Unfortunately, it started Friday evening with the news that a childhood friend had passed away from cancer.  He's been fighting it but his lungs gave out and they couldn't bring him back this time.  Scott was Major in the Air Force.  He was serving in Japan when they found the late-stage cancer and he ( Read more... )