Today, I’m thankful for:
The opportunity that I have to teach my children at home so we can focus on learning a concept instead of just being graded on how quickly you can pick it up.
Finishing our school work for the day before lunch today. That almost never happens, and it is so nice to know [...]
Today, I am thankful for:
The fact that my cell phone (an Instinct—a phone that I have disliked the entire time I had it) waited until a few days AFTER the phone I have been looking at (the Palm Pixi) came out on the market to go completely toes up.
The good buy back price I got [...]
Noah: Mommy, what is the party you are going to for?
Me: Well, it is for a bunch of women to get together before most of them go see a movie.
Noah: You’re going to go see a movie?
Me: No, but I’ll probably watch it when it comes out on DVD.
Noah: What’s the movie about?
Me: Well, [...]
Yesterday was a challenging day. Well, actually, most of yesterday went just fine. But those last two hours before Sean came home from work? Life pretty much went to Hell in a hand basket (side note: I used to think the expression was “To Hell in a handcart” which, ironically, I blame on my Mormon [...]
It’s time to get a little personal. I want to talk about the bedroom.
OK, not THAT personal.
Am I the only one with a complete pit for a bedroom?
It is no secret that, with five kids, housework is a constant challenge for me. I feel like it takes all I have to just keep things [...]
This weekend, Noah and Wyatt decided to write letters to Santa Claus. These were given to Sean with the instruction to mail them to the North Pole today (and then my instruction to save them since I could see him not necessarily thinking about the fact that THEY MADE LISTS since he isn’t the one [...]
I got an earlier than usual start to my day today. This is thanks to the fact that Noah decided not to ride along with Sean and the other boys when Sean went to get donuts for a special treat this morning, then got bored/lonely when his visiting grandma went down to take a shower. [...]
After I posted my letter to myself yesterday, I had a “so where do I go from here?” sort of a feeling. Then Jill (and then Nicole) commented that they would love to see me write another letter to the future me. So I started thinking about it.
First, I had to figure out who I [...]
January 13, 1993
Dear Me,
This is a letter to myself to let me, in the future, see what my hopes and expectations were when I was almost 16, and to see how my life met up to those dreams and expectations.
In two and a half years I hope to graduate high school and probably go to [...]
Last year, I made a challenge to myself to spend the month of November focusing on gratitude. I decided to do Thirty Days of Thankfulness on this blog by listing five things that I was grateful for each day. It was not always easy, but it was an incredibly positive experience for me.
About a month [...]
