Thanks, Aimee, my newest NaBloPoMo friend, for breaking the rules and tagging all her friends with this meme. Name six guilty pleasures no one would suspect you of having:1. I like to sleep naked. This is a rarity for me now, having been caught at 4:30am, naked, with my house on fire - it [...]

Today I woke in a grateful mood. Ironic since that is so NOT the mood I went to sleep in last night. I got up to find Prima Donna Daughter at her computer playing/singing Christmas songs. When she saw me coming into the living room, she jumped up, ran to me and hugged me and [...]

Oldest Son is having some difficulty in making the adjustment to being back under Mama’s roof. In fact, more than some…try a whole truckload.
It’s quite entertaining to me that he assumes because he’s now ‘of age’ that somehow gives him the right to make rules and, even more cheeky - ignore rules in my house.
NOT.
I [...]

Strange title, I know, but ’twas my response to OldestSon when he asked why SecondSon was having a friend spend the night tonight.
OldestSon moved back ‘home’ three weeks ago (which goes about 60% of the way toward explaining my absence of late), so now, on top of all the drama he brings with him, I [...]

Ok, so I joined NBPM (a.k.a. NaBloPoMo) yesterday, posted my first post, and BANG! I’m tagged for a random meme. Good thing I like ‘em (most of the time)… Thanks to Andie D for tagging me and making me feel welcome.
Ok, here goes…
Rules:

Link to the person that tagged you and post [...]

As I may have mentioned, I am a substitute teacher for our local public school system. This is my third year, and I really do love it. Why?
1. Back when I still believed life turns out the way you plan if you take the time to plan, I wanted to be a teacher.
2. No [...]

I don’t get names like this NaBloPoMo…I guess it’s shorter and sounds cooler than saying National Blog Posting Month. I won’t even tell you how long it took me to figure out that Payless’ BOGO meant Buy One, Get One…sheesh. Regardless of how I feel about the name, I like the idea:
Post once a [...]