Kyle’s cousin, Heidi, kindly donated to my marathon efforts and put a call out on her blog to solicit even more. We are about halfway through the training process, which means I desperately need to get busy raising the $1600 commitment I made to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. In honor of the halfway point, [...]

Kyle recorded a snippet of the evening news this past week that didn’t surprise me considering it came from this news network, but the more I thought about it, the more incensed I became. The anchors, Paul and Sharon were reporting on the event that trumped all other headlines of the day, Britney Spear’s new [...]

when you are out somewhere with your child and you notice that child has an enormous booger lodged in their nose, so you subject them to what they would consider torture in an attempt to dig it out…triggering a somewhat inappropriate feeling of pride and accomplishment when it is finally free…only to realize that there [...]

OMG. I have been without internet access since last Friday morning. We came home on Sunday to a dead phone line. The phone company came on Monday to fix the problem, told me that it was fixed (even though the line was still dead) and left me instructions to call the main office, which only [...]

Today was in a word, hectic. The kids and I rushed around all day running errands for our weekend trip, and I spent the evening doing laundry and packing up our entire house (how does one little baby need so much stuff). Kyle had to go to a benefit dinner after work so I was [...]