talking mouths and yellow-y bananas

I took Jane Bradley to the store a couple of days ago, and she asked for a sucker on the way. Of course, I immediately opted for bribery – a sucker in exchange for good behavior inside the store. Well we get to the checkout and cannot find any suckers, so we look on every [...]

funny. real funny.

Last night Brad received a phonecall from a friend thanking him for a favor. The friend’s wife owns a tanning salon, and he offered in return free tanning anytime for me. Brad tells him (WHILE I AM SITTING IN THE ROOM) that right now I am pregnant, but as soon as I get my beach [...]

the funniest things i don’t want to forget

I love the imaginative stage of a 3 year old. Everything comes to life. The jump rope in my car is the mean snake. Every baby doll that rides in the car must be properly buckled in her own seat belt before we can put the car in gear – its so they can be safe, mom. Monsters [...]

tap.tap.tap… Is this thing on?

So. I added a subtitle to my blog. I have not blogged in a year and a half. My problem is that I get an idea and then I think that I have to for some reason have a need for the rest of the world to know my idea and I don’t have a [...]

why me?

I was having a supercheap lunch with my sister today. You know the phonecalls that start out with, “Hey, you wanna go to lunch?”… “Yeah, as long as we go somewhere cheap…”… Everybody has those. For me it usually means that I have already blown my dining out budget for the month and it’s only [...]

hearing voices cont’d…

I am constantly reminded that I am an exceptionally loud person. My mom loves to tell the story about how when I went to college all of a sudden their house became suprisingly quiet. They had always known they had a fairly busy and loud home, but they didn’t realize that the bulk of the [...]

Hairbrush experience at the airport

I once wrote a blog about feeling a little bit like noah when God told him to build an ark to prepare for the flood. Everybody thought he was a lunatic, especially because of the size of the thing – not to mention the fact that it had never rained, ever.
On another note, my heroine [...]

“you are never behind… Just jump in where you are”

This is a quote from www.flylady.com – a website that I totally recommend visiting if you are anything like me and a clean house seems like something that I will receive when I get to heaven, but clearly not before. I wanted to share it because I have gotten so many of the same responses from my [...]

Three-inch heels and a double stroller

When you pass a certain age, maybe it’s different for everyone, maybe it’s after motherhood or marriage or some life-altering mile marker, whenever it is, women go through “the change.” I’m not talking about anything hormonal, maybe I am and don’t know it, but I’m talking about when girls stop looking at the other guys [...]

wind

“But seeing the wind, he became frightened, and beginning to sink, he cried out, ‘Lord, save me!’
Immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and took hold of him and said to him, ‘You of little faith, why did you doubt?’”
Matthew 14:30-31 (emphasis added)