Archive for January, 2011

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

soak it up

Somehow I don’t think the writer of this song had envisioned the listeners of his song imagining cleaning up their children’s messes with a Sham-Wow while listening to it.

Friday, January 7th, 2011

growing up WAY too fast

The other day the girls and I were on our way out the door when I realized (satisfactorily) that I needed a belt to help hold up my jeans. I told the girls to go wait in the car while I fetched my belt. Being the ever helpful daughter Annie suggested that I try some [...]

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

back on the saddle again

I have mixed feelings about the kids being back in school. On the one hand, it was nice having no schedule and being able to sleep in and decide at the last minute our plans for the day. On the other hand, my girls and I thrive on routine or else all heck breaks loose. [...]

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

sledding while we can

On Christmas day we met up with the Johnsons for a little bit of sledding. The days leading up to the 25th we got dumped with snow, so we wanted to make sure to take advantage of it. We got another foot on the 26th, but then a heat wave melted almost all of the [...]