Clothes line

I have a clothes line now. Yesterday & today I’ve “hung out the wash,” as Meema always said. My youngest sister teased me when I told her about setting it up. Before I moved, I lived in a more rural area.. not really out in the country, but it felt like it. [...]

Phone calls

Last night, I got a phone call from the kids’ stepmom. She said that son wanted to talk to me b/c he was crying. When he got on the phone, he told me that EX had spanked him with a belt on his legs & butt for slamming the door & not doing [...]

Life (the game)

I was looking at a blog that was referenced on Ginger’s blog… Paper Forest and remembered playing the game LIFE during my childhood. Once we were playing & my sister kept on drawing the cards that said she’d had another baby. She had not “gotten married” in the game. She finally had [...]

What does your birthdate mean?

Your Birthdate: December 22

While sometimes employing unorthodox approaches, you are capable of handling large scale undertakings.
You assume great responsibility and work long and hard toward completion.
Often, especially in the early part of life, there is rigidity or stubbornness, and a tendency to repress feelings.
Idealistic, you work for the greater good with a good [...]

Aaaaaahh… it’s quiet here

After this past week, I’m really glad to have a quiet house. The kids are at their dad & stepmom’s house for a week or two.
This past week, I have had several things that needed to be fixed & they’re almost all done. First, the downstairs toilet was repaired b/c the seal was [...]

Aaaaaahh… it’s quiet here

After this past week, I’m really glad to have a quiet house. The kids are at their dad & stepmom’s house for a week or two.
This past week, I have had several things that needed to be fixed & they’re almost all done. First, the downstairs toilet was repaired b/c the seal was [...]

What’s your hidden talent?

Your Hidden Talent

You are a great communicator. You have a real way with words.You’re never at a loss to explain what you mean or how you feel.People find it easy to empathize with you, no matter what your situation.When you’re up, you make everyone happy. But when you’re down, everyone suffers.

What’s Your Hidden Talent?

What’s your hidden talent?

Your Hidden Talent

You are a great communicator. You have a real way with words.You’re never at a loss to explain what you mean or how you feel.People find it easy to empathize with you, no matter what your situation.When you’re up, you make everyone happy. But when you’re down, everyone suffers.

What’s Your Hidden Talent?

What happened the year you were born?

Saw this in Ginger’s blog…. cool, huh? Thought I could get away with posting it too since we were born in different years.

In 1969 (the year I was born)….

Richard Nixon becomes president of the US
Senator Edward Kennedy escapes injury when the car he is driving veers off a narrow bridge on [...]

Follow-up newspaper article

This post may be upsetting to many… read with caution!
Today I read the follow up article about the 4 year old boy that was found severely abused, neglected, malnourished & kept in a closet. It’s nauseating.
The boy’s aunt is who he was living with. His mom & her half brother (who was masquerading as [...]

A dozen years

At 8:53am tomorrow morning, I’ll have been a mom for 12 years!
I cannot believe she’s already this age. Amazing how quickly they grow up, isn’t it?

Newspaper article

Today, Mom showed the kids an article in yesterday’s newspaper about a 4 year old boy that had been made to live in a closet. He weighed 26 pounds. The kids have been telling me about it. The article said that he ate only oatmeal & ramen noodles & told the horrible [...]

My friendly ghost

I have noticed an odd phenomenon in… my bedroom of all places! And, NO, it’s not an X-rated phenomenon!
I have a touch lamp on the nightstand beside my bed. I currently have a make-shift nightstand.. it’s a 2 drawer file cabinet posing as a nightstand.
When I walk across the room or [...]

The Dobster is really smart

He knows that I don’t like him walking on/landing on/running across the keyboard when I’m on the computer… I pick him up & move him each & every time he gets on it. I know he KNOWS because each time he gets on it now, he RUNS really fast across it to the other [...]

No return call

I’ve left a message for youngest daughter’s friend’s dad asking him to call to talk about the sheriff calling me that night to pick her up from Frontier City. I also left a message for daughter’s friend’s mom, his ex wife, asking her to call so we can plan a time for the girls [...]