Have you ever had that experience of reading a book and even when you aren’t reading it, you keep thinking about the story or the ideas that you have been reading about? Some books are more attention getting than others, but a really good story can have me thinking about it for days. I had that experience with The Book […]
I have this problem that is only partially solved by wearing earplugs – I hear things at night. Things that wake me out of a sound sleep into a heart-pounding adrenaline rush of fears. Last night I heard four or five distinct and LOUD thumps – like someone was banging things around in the house – or something. Then I just laid […]
Kids are downstairs watching “The Aristocats”. I love that movie! No super scary villain and those kittens are so cute … Tom’s gone to the Priesthood Session of General Conference (want to know more? Go here.) Sadly, we all kindof forgot this was conference weekend and Spencer didn’t ask for it off, so he’s at work. I realized that […]
I don’t usually post about Andrew in particular, though I read a lot of blogs where moms with difficult kids post often about the challenges they face. But today I’m making an exception. Almost a year ago Andrew had such an escalation of out of control behaviors that we (as his parents) were driven to put him back in therapy, […]
Normally we don’t do much at our house for Valentine’s Day. In fact, Tom has been known to complain that there are entirely too many holidays between Christmas and Mother’s Day where he has to get me stuff (Anniversary & Birthday being the big ones). But this year he must have caught the romantic bug because he celebrated in a […]
I was cleaning out the drawers in my nightstand the other day (does anyone else have to do this?? I always seem to be stashing things in them that really don’t go there) and came across my journal. The last entry in the book was from April of 2010. Shameful!! I got to thinking about why I hadn’t written in […]
So we had snowy weather forecast for late Monday and into the afternoon of Tuesday, along with freakishly (for Denver anyway) cold temps. Monday afternoon was not fun, I will admit. I had to take Andrew to a Drs. appt about 20 minutes away (in good weather). Because of the very slick roads and snow it took me closer to […]
This month I have been working on getting things done that I’ve been putting off. Like buying a new car … Here’s a list of the things I’ve done so far: fixed the leaky faucet in the kids’ bathroom (this has been leaking for at least six months …) finished the painting project that I started back in October (the […]
So – we took the plunge and bought a new car – we are now officially a three car family (that is so weird). Since we are currently a two driver family we are just parking the Prism for the time being (July will be here soon …). But all the details about the “new kid on the block”. This […]
We currently own two cars in our family – a 2000 Nissan Pathfinder: And a 1995 Geo Prism: We bought the Pathfinder back before we were a family of five, back when Tom was going through his first bout of unemployment, back when we owned a Dodge Caravan that had left us stranded more than once and was threatening to […]