We made our annual trek to Minnesota for the Thanksgiving holiday this year. Mike picked up the girls from school while I made the finishing touches on our laundry basket luggage, and then we left shortly after. I can’t tell you what a relief it is now to know that we only have to travel [...]

Mike isn’t one to want a celebration showered all over him, but I can’t just let his birthday pass by without some observance. A cake was baked, and Mike was very pleased that I previously took note of his fondness for red velvet with cream cheese frosting. However, when I told him I had a [...]

Now that the weather is taking a turn for the cold (it got down to 2 degrees last night) we have been staying closer to home base. The girls have been wanting to go to the Lanes, the local bowling alley, since we’ve moved here. We finally had a quiet enough weekend to go check [...]

People who know Mike know that there are a lot of things he wants in this world. Many of which he has gotten his hands on despite my trying to deter him. I don’t know if I ever posted about the tractor he got a few weeks ago. Here it is (that’s Dale on it, [...]

The girls are always so excited about Halloween and start planning out costume ideas throughout the year. However, they have a mother who is a pro at procrastination which means costumes don’t get started until 9:00 p.m. the night before the costumes are needed. Yes, this is what I did, and I’m not proud of [...]