OK OK, Obviously homeschoolers made it to reality TV long ago on TLC thanks to “Kids by the Dozen” and the Duggar Family shows, but now they’ve made it to network reality TV!! So Chris was working and I was blogging last night, and we had the TV on in the background – the “wholesome” […]

Time to announce the winner of my scavenger hunt!!!I had 142 entries, and since I am, as mentioned before, a total Excel Nerd, I used the RANDBETWEEN function to pick the winner. . .and the winning number was entry 38, who was:GINA!!!!Congratulations, Gina!! I will bring your gift card to work tomorrow!And thank you to […]

Happy Blogday to me, Happy Blogday to me. . . Since I skimmed over my 100th blog, I’m going to celebrate my 150th! BUT I’m going to ask you to celebrate it for me. I’ve written you people 150 blogs in under 4 months – that’s a lotta love for you!! Yet, still, over half […]

HOOOOOORAAAAYYY!!!! 230-some-odd invitations are at the Cahaba Heights Post Office!!! It was quite an adventure making it through the 50 steps. The person getting me the addresses stayed up till 2:30 am this morning getting them finalized, then lost all of her changes when saving the file. I spent the morning helping her redo them, […]

Wouldntja like a puppy??This is a shameless plug for my Mother’s sake. And my Father’s. And Shadow’s, because apparently she hates being a Mommy. She steers CLEAR of her puppies as much as she can! Oh, and for mine and Chris’ sake – the more puppies gone, the less pressure we get to take one! […]

This morning, Ali was walking towards me, and she stopped suddenly and let out a cry. I couldn’t tell what she did, so I asked her what hurt, and, for the first time ever, she told me!!! she said “foot!” Sure enough, she was walking past the corner of the coffee table, so she probably […]

My blog has been very busy lately with important news like toenail art, men in trees, Eli coming home, morale boosting, political game shows, and spies. Because of that, I haven’t just put up many family pictures lately. So, lest I get kicked out of the “Mommy Blog” club, This is just a simple post […]

So I am up to my eyeballs in invitations. I am preparing 300 invitations to a wedding reception. Not just mailing them out – my tasks include:– picking out the invitation– writing the invitation wording up– printing the invitations myself– hole punching and threading ribbons through the tops of the invitations (THANKS A MILLION to […]

You remember my blog about my uncle’s art made from his toenail clippings? I know, I know, you’ve had nightmares about it ever since. How COULD you forget? The same weekend that I posted about it on my blog, Leo and I decided to find out how much his toenail art was worth on the […]

My husband is the luckiest man of the week. No, no, not because he’s married to me, but because of the Men in Trees. I have had Men In Trees in my yard since LAST Thursday. The power company sent out a half dozen Asplundh contractors to clean up around the power lines in our […]