So, back on December 27th Tom & I passed a significant milestone in our life together – we’ve been officially hitched for 20 years! Just saying that seems a little unreal. 20 years is almost half of the total time I’ve been alive. Somehow I’ve gone from sharing my life with someone I’m “getting to know” to sharing my life […]
I’m posting all the blog posts I thought about writing but never did write – and I know some of you (Erin, Mom) are dying to see the posts about our kitchen (and I promise they are coming) but in the meanwhile, I’m going to use those pictures I took and get these entries posted (I think this is the […]
Andrew and Haley and I drove out to Provo this past weekend to spend a few days of their fall break visiting Tom’s mom. After a couple of years of falls and mini-strokes and various ailments that come and go, she has reached the point of needing someone in her home all the time, “just in case”. Luckily for everyone, […]
So I’ve been AWOL – not deliberately, but I haven’t felt like I have anything interesting to say, or I’ve been too lazy to get my pictures uploaded. Still, lame excuse. Going to try and post more regularly. This post is an update on a couple of things I’ve talked about here. First – my scripture reading plan. I’m on […]
Every year I vow that I’m going to throw half birthday parties for Andrew and Haley, because 1) they share a birthday and 2) it falls in December!! Really – who can throw two birthday parties in December? Usually what happens is we frantically invite two or three friends to join us at the pool in early December because I […]
Is this what all my two readers are wondering?? I know that when my favorite bloggers go quiet I certainly start wondering. In my case, I’ve just been too lazy to blog – or too busy, can’t decide! We are in our final weekend until school starts again and I’m actually feeling a little sad because there were a few […]
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 […]
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 […]