Uhhh…yeah… Won’t mention any names, though…

Uhhh…I’d say this applies year-round.

Amen!
(This week of Maxine is brought to you by my BFF Patsy, who emailed me these great Maxine-isms one day last week. I’m doling out the Maxine-awesomeness, so that you don’t overload, like I almost did.)

Sweet Pea is here for another weekend at Grandma’s, and it appears Callie has joined the Sweet Pea Fan Club. Callie has spent all the previous Sweet Pea visits eyeing the bundle of predominantly pink, trying to determine if this new creature is friend or foe.
Apparently, friend is the conclusion, as Sweet Pea is yet [...]

In keeping with this week’s theme, I give you a Halloween past at our house:

Easier said than done these days, it seems. Everywhere you turn, people are wiggin’ out. And I probably would, too, if I was facing foreclosure or had lost a my retirement funds in the stock market the last few weeks. Thankfully, neither are true for me.
I’ve got my own barrel of monkeys I’m dealing [...]

Oldest Son called Tuesday evening, asking if he could come over and use the computer and do a little laundry. “If you can come and get us, I’ll bring the baby with me and we can spend the night,” he said.
Oh yeah - he’s smart. He knows how to get a ‘yes’ out of mom [...]

Today is Blog Action Day, and the topic is poverty. This is a topic I thought I knew something about, having been, at one point, a single mother, pregnant with another child, bankrupt and barely employed. In the years since, I’ve “qualified” as living at or below the poverty line a few times.
But since [...]