We’re going to have some major fun at our house this month. I know you’ll be wishing you could be here to share the joy, so I’ll do my best to post pictures and maybe even a video or two so you can feel included. The first bit ‘o fun on the schedule was opening our pool. This is a picture of our pool, taken oh…probably at least 4 summers...

Uhhh…I’d say this applies year-round.

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...

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Thirteen Places I Don’t Care If I See Again or Ever Las Vegas, Nevada (ever) Graceland (again) Detroit, Michigan (again) Niagara Falls, New York (again) I-40 from Memphis, Tennessee to Asheville, North Carolina (again…ever! lol) Any of the Mexican border towns (ever) Kansas or Nebraska (again) Little Rock, Arkansas (again) Anywhere in the Middle East...

Since I fought the Monday but the Monday won, I figured today would have no choice but to be better. Right? Kamikaze Caller Today started off with a revealing conversation with New Man who crawled back out of the woodwork a week ago. He had disappeared for a couple of weeks, until I saw him at football practice a week ago Friday. And what does he say to me?...

Ya know – there are days we should just follow the advice of that little voice we hear and throw the covers back over our heads and stay in bed – and today feels like one of them! Oy! Even as I sit here typing this, I realize I’m still carrying around $4,655 in checks and cash that I tried twice to go deposit in the bank. Shit. Yeah, it’s...

Wednesday night, after all the dog and website drama here, Baby Sister came over to hang the curtains she’d made for my room and Second Son’s room, only to find we had the wrong length of rod for mine and Second Son’s she deemed too short (thanks to me trusting the contractor who told me that Second Son’s windows were the same height as the...

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 telling me her site wouldn’t come up. The rest of the day/night was spent...

Yes, we all survived Spring Break, hallelujah! It was touch and go a couple of times, but we made it. No stretch of days seems to pass here lately without some serious life lessons involved. Life lesson realizations, more accurately. You know, when I made the decision to take Adopted Son in, I knew what I was up against bringing someone everyone else in the world...