Self-fulfilling prophesies
Today I signed up to be a volunteer library assistant. It kind of cracks me up because of this quote: Juno (V.O.) "Jocks like him always want freaky girls. Girls [...]
When Fall shortcircuits the brain (I blame school)
Dear Weather, I am entirely frustrated with you. I've never met anyone so fickle. First, you ran cold all summer and I've got to be honest, weather, sometimes when a [...]
Organizing for help
I don't usually do this but we could sure use the help. Our local elementary school burned down this summer. It was a purposeful act of arson that took out [...]
Bad Mom Move #1,346
So apparently I sent my child to school with a moldy sandwich. Which I find ironic considering that whole other incident involving bread. I was going to pack a lunchables [...]
Firstly, we will learn grammar
Today was Chance's first day of kindergarten!! Can you hear the elation? I'm pretty psyched, he's pretty psyched. I'm pretty sure there will be no tears (unless Keen loses it, [...]
Middling tidbits
Today is the five year anniversary of this blog. I almost missed it! Because I'm not very good at things like dates. Blogging is often a learning curve that... doesn't [...]
The Art of Making Jam
First off, all those recipes/instructions for jam try to scare you. They're all, follow these instructions PRECISELY! Use EXACT measurements! Do NOT deviate whatsoever from this recipe! Or else your [...]
Getting crotchety was not my intention
My computer has this power saving setting that dims the screen display when it's running on battery power. Very earth friendly (you know, in this non-recyclable machine that will be [...]