child support and money stuff

I’ve been thinking about child support, money, budgeting, and teaching my children financial management skills. I posted this on the forum that I help moderate when the topic of child support and whether the children should know about household money stuff came up.
My children are often not able to do all the [...]

Tag – I’m it!

I was tagged by Julie. The theme is three things we’re thankful for.
1. My children. I didn’t realize when I had my first child in 1993 how much my life would change. Having them in my life has been a journey that’s not ever boring, is always colorful, and has [...]

Leo

Last night, Leo (our horse) died. His health had begun to deteriorate and he was no longer to get himself up after laying down. Although he lived at Mom & Dad’s house, I considered him to be mine as well, since he was a member of our family for the past 26 years [...]

underwire

Someone really does need to invent an underwire material that will not break & poke the dear wearer of the broken underwire in the seiboob.
I’m sure this is a complaint heard from women around the world at one time or another, so I’ll hush now.

which accent?

I saw this over at Jackie’s blog & wanted to see what type of accent I have. What about yours?

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The West

 

Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you’re a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you [...]

Bridge to Terabithia

Have you seen it? Did you read the book? What did you think?
I took my daughers & niece to see it this afternoon. We loved it. I’ve not read the book in ages, DD13 loves the book and now DD10 wants to read it.
The book is written at about a [...]

phone call #999,999

A: Which procedure is it that pays by DRG? Arthroplasties?
B: No, arthrograms
A: How do you spell that?
B: a-r-t-h-r-o-g-r-a-m
A: Oh. Ok. I got it right.

Doh. It really wouldn’t be a big deal if I’d not answered that same question all those other 999,998 times (this week). [...]

handwriting

DD10 got two cards in the mail a few days ago; a get-well card signed by two of her little sisters and one from XH. The one from XH was one of those sappy cards with a long poem on the front & then the rest of the poem on the inside. The poem was [...]

Saturdee

Overheard:
What’d you do on Saturdee?
I’m not sure why things like this bug me, but they do. Usually I try to just it & move on about my day. Today, I’m tired & I want to yell – it’s SaturDAY! Get it straight!

smallest feet and other stuff

I posted on March 7, 2006 that I was not the tallest in my home any longer.
Today, I have the smallest feet in my little family. Youngest daughter got shoes that are 1/2 size bigger than mine.
It’s weird to think that all three of my children have bigger feet than mine.
Today [...]

The last searches

that led people to my blog (and my comments) are as follows:
stepmother, spanking, belt, on the bed – It’s weird that my blog would show up with this search, but it does. My ex spanked my son with a belt the last time they went to visit (July 2005) and I blogged about [...]

The last searches

that led people to my blog (and my comments) are as follows:
stepmother, spanking, belt, on the bed – It’s weird that my blog would show up with this search, but it does. My ex spanked my son with a belt the last time they went to visit (July 2005) and I blogged about [...]

Happy New Year!

Today is Chinese New Year – the year of the Pig.
The kids and I will probably have Chinese food for dinner in honor of this day. What about you?
Read more about Chinese New Year here.
Photo from Wickipedia.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

I listened to an interview with author Brian Selznick about his book The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
I cannot wait to read this book.
You can read or listen to the interview here.

dog years?

Today at work some of us were discussing the halftime show at the SuperBowl. We mentioned how Prince looks the same as he always did & how well he is aging.
A couple of hours later, one of my coworkers (who has a dog named Prince) looked at me & said, “Prince is 48.” [...]