Well it's official. Christmas is over. My sons are having a great time being on winter break. They are busy playing WWE Smackdown all over my house. I have actually had to play referee and medic , no seriously. The wrestling got out of hand and I actually had to pull them off of each other. Then they both went flying down the stairs and now they ( Read more... )

So as you know, I 've moved to a very rural area outside of Houston. I'm actually a city girl and my husband is a Cali-boy. How we ended up here-well I don't know. One day we said- let's look for some land to build a house on. We didn't like the idea of living so close to our neighbors. So here we are - on too many acres to take care of and a nice ( Read more... )

It finally happened.  After 6 long months of building this darn house, we are finally living in it. I have to say-I love the peace and privacy ( Read more... )

I was so tired of getting ready for hurricanes. I mean here in Texas we get ready for Hurricanes all summer long. It usually ends up with having too much bottled water and too many batteries.

Well after the numerous "duds" that we've had all year, Hurricane Ike comes into play.

Let me just say that I've never been so scared in my life. My family was ( Read more... )

Yesterday we visited the Shitennoji Temple in Osaka, Japan.   When we arrived, there was an older man and his wife who called out to me.

He said, "Hey, where are you from?" I told him, "From America."

He proceed to tell us all about the temple and the fact that the original temple was destroyed by fire and that it had been entirely rebuilt.

He was a ( Read more... )

Today I took my 6 year old son, Jude, to the Vanz store because he just had to have some checkerd vanz. 
Okay so there were 2 guys that worked there. You know the type, the bad boy skater/surfer type.  The guys were extremely nice and helpful, but as they were helping me, I noticed that they smelled like grain alcohol.  I'm thinking-there's a party ( Read more... )

Okay, so summer has officially begun. It's a little overwhelming for me though. We're almost finished building our new home and we just put our current home on the market.

Let me just say, it sucks having to live everyday of your life cleaning. The house must be ready to show to potential buyers at all times. When you have two small kids, it's near ( Read more... )