Finding the Balance
If there was a circus near, I’d run away with it.
I’m sitting here eating a great, fat, creamy spoonful of peanut butter. It’s not what I want, really, but it’s what’s handy, and I’m too lazy at the moment to make myself something else. So it is what it is. It is my peanut butter, and for now, it is making me moderately happy. Today is one of those days…where …
August 29, 2011 Monday at 2:55 pm
Defining my life…
I’m sitting here, staring at a website for one of the colleges that is offering my daughter a financial award. I went to the site to look at the degrees offered, the requirements, and most importantly, the cost. It’s a smaller college, but even with the financial award, it would still be $32,000/year. Oof. I am sitting here, with my …
August 15, 2011 Monday at 4:59 pm
Mama’s new groove…
I need to get back in the groove. School starts next week for my oldest, Cheesecake. (I know, UGH, really? This early?? YEP.) And next week for my other three school aged kids. Of course – not on the same day, mind you. Peeps (13) and Pez (almost 11) start on Monday, while Lemon Drop (15) starts on Wednesday. So …
August 4, 2011 Thursday at 10:18 am
Just….pleh….
I need to get caught up on my Financial Peace postings (I am missing the deals lesson, the lesson on investing, and the lesson on saving for retirement and college). But… Our junior high and high school students at church have a mission “trip” (they are staying here in town, but doing service projects for a week) begins Sunday. I …
July 13, 2011 Wednesday at 10:57 pm
Outta here….
Today I am missing Colorado. While I didn’t even live there a full year, I miss it. I miss SEEING the mountains every day (when it wasn’t hazy), but even more than that, I miss, after a rough day, being able to go for a drive in the mountains and having my perspective re-set. Even though we were too far …
June 30, 2011 Thursday at 1:47 pm
Heart laid bare
I’m writing this, knowing my husband is probably going to read it, and in some ways, it’s unfair. God keeps telling me to write, though – and I’m not sure how to do it other than here. I have this vague longing to write a book, but…ideas, they aren’t coming. Well, that’s not true. I have ONE idea, so I …
June 2, 2011 Thursday at 1:25 pm
Visions of sugar plums…
I think I finally managed to kill the shamrock. Well, I am not certain if it was me, or a collaborative effort, but I think it’s nearly dead. See, I see it wilty, so I give it water. Somebody else sees it wilty, gives it water, etc…’til we have killed it with kindness, so to speak. But hey – 2 …
May 27, 2011 Friday at 12:01 am
New House, New Rules
So, we went to the Marriage Today Dream Marriage seminar over the weekend. While it wasn’t a long seminar, I have to say – I am amazed at the little things we took away from it. One of those things was the suggestion that kids are in their rooms by a certain time each night, ensuring that the parents have …
February 13, 2011 Sunday at 10:44 pm
In the secret, in the quiet place…
Since our move last weekend, I haven’t had much opportunity to just sit and be quiet. To be completely honest, if I did find that moment, I think I would have passed out. Our days have been really long – with me up at 6 and rarely asleep before 1. The first two nights, I took an ambien, becuase I …
February 11, 2011 Friday at 8:31 am
