If Only I Weren’t So Organized

I started listening to Christmas music yesterday. We try to listen to religious music on Sundays and what’s more religious than the birth of the Savior? No, I’m not rationalizing, mom. It was a very uplifting Sabbath.
It sort of spilled over to today. The music wants to be played and who [...]

Filed under: Random, all about me

The Karate Kid – A Retrospective

Trapped in a house full of munchkins with a sinus headache and feeling decidedly less than lerious, I am reminded that I have yet to do a movie review of The Karate Kid.
I’m worried that once the night-time cold medication kicks in, I’ll be unable to remember all the details of the film that was [...]

Filed under: Reviews, fun, fun, fun

There is Blue

I’m not sure quite what to make of it. It’s rained so much for so long that it appears to have done something strange to the sky. It’s all discolored and odd-looking with these large patches of a bluish color. They look quite pretty. I’m just wondering what kind of rain [...]

Filed under: around town

Life in Atlantis

By now you probably know that much of Washington has been swallowed up in the great waters of the Puget Sound apocalypse.
Our town is effectively cut off from civilization as the rivers in the area have swollen to gigantical proportions. Here are a few photos:
This was taken a couple of months ago. Notice [...]

Filed under: around town, emergency preparedness, near-death, shish

Tip Tuesday - Mom-Style

Someone asked me to do a Tip Tuesday on fashion for moms and I thought “I’d love to hear what y’all have to say on that one cause I’ve got nothin’.” Then I thought of Carrie from Tales from the Crib.
I knew she loved fashion, so I asked her to help me out this [...]

Filed under: fashion, tip tuesday

Pop Rocks in My Carpet

My Weekend in Poetical Free Verse
Pop Rocks.
Pop.
Rocks.
You pop, but you do not rock.
Why are you having a rave
In the corner of my family room
And on the bottoms of my feet?
Nevermore, quoth the Halloween candy nazi, nevermore.
Learning words, Magoo is.
Yesterday “hockey” and his own name.
He pronounces them exactly the same.
Never shall I know
Whether of himself he [...]

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It Smells Like the Moon

There are days when I feel like I’m raising Bill Nye’s daughter. Laylee is forever experimenting, probing and hypothesizing about the world. She has an uncanny memory and whips out scientific facts at the strangest times.

At the playground a few months ago, she pointed to the center post of the see-saw and said, [...]

Filed under: kid stuff