DO NOT SWALLOW CHEWING GUM!!

OMG! I’m STILL laughing, and Tracy sent this to me via email last week! Thanks, Tracy! I’m just glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I opened that one up! I’d have blown it out my nose for sure!

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Thirteen Reasons I Write This Blog

It’s WAY less expensive than therapy
To connect and keep up-to-date those I love who are far away
To know myself better
To be heard
To laugh on a regular basis
To remind myself of what’s important in life
It’s more fun than folding laundry or doing dishes
To make new friends
To express myself
To practice what I [...]

It never ceases to amaze me how silly teenagers can be. Second Son and his friends had been outside running around in the rain. When they came in, they decided to rinse the grass off their feet in the bathtub and since they were all wet already, they just had a seat.

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Second Son broke up with his former girlfriend a couple of months ago. Of course, I am the last to know anything, so I was somewhat confused when he and one of the neighbor’s daughters started ‘hanging out’ together.
PDD has been friends with this particular girl for awhile now. She’s only 6 months younger [...]

PDD attended Vacation Bible School with Baby Sis and Baby Nephew this week. There were 948 kids, 37 leaders, 267 volunteers (of which Baby Sis was one), and 177 teen helpers in attendance this year.
Uhhh…yeah… A big ol’ honkin’ VBS! Certainly the biggest I’ve ever witnessed!
PDD was a bit leery upon arriving the first [...]

Wrapping up a week-long celebration of turning 9, PDD had her first ever slumber party last night. In attendance were 4 friends from school. That’s PDD in the middle. The two girls dressed alike are sisters, but not twins. The older sister (on the left) is going into 6th grade next year, while the rest [...]

Tuesday, I got to school expecting to be teaching 8th grade and instead was asked to cover 6th grade math/reading classes. Aside from the fact that the 6th graders act like their parents feed them acid for breakfast, it was an ok day. But I came home to an email from a new web client [...]

I am very blessed to have my very own Ya Ya Sisters. And yes, we even call ourselves that, inspired by the movie. Though we haven’t known each other since childhood like the women in the movie, sometimes it seems like we have.
We range in age from mid-20’s to mid-40’s and live in three [...]

When you believe that the best thing to do when life is throwing lemons at you is make lemonade, it’s amazing how thirsty people show up in your life.
Yesterday was a tough day, and nothing about what made it tough has improved. But some amazing things have happened that I might not have noticed if [...]

It occurs to me that I’ve been blessed to have a whole lotta luv washin’ over me since I posted yesterday. And yeah, I’m worth it, an’ all, but it’s still fairly wondrous to recognize in the moment. Kinda makes your jaw drop if you pay attention.

First, I want to send a shout out [...]