To spend or not to spend…

Okay, the economy is starting to suck. And my family is doing our part to help. You see the way a consumerist economy works is we all spend lots of money, which creates jobs, which allows more people to spend lots of money, which creates more jobs, which is the song that never ends… But [...]

How Do You Recharge Your Batteries?

My oldest two children are 16 months and 6 days apart, yet act more like twins than two children born seconds apart. Except for mine are the ying and yang of personalities. He is dark. His hair is dark, his skin is dark, his personality is dark. When he was little he could cry at [...]

WPW Free!

#3 had his visit with the cardiologist today for his 6 month post op visit. The EKG and ultrasound look good and so we are… WPW free! I am so happy. Praise God, He got us there and back home in one piece. He will need another EKG in about ten years. Just to be [...]

It all started out so easy…

My family has decided they are tired of pork chops. Our menu has 21 choices, and some of those are repeats. Hubby only likes meat. So that limits the menus and now they want to get rid of pork chops.. So I asked a fairly simple question. Give me a menu item to replace the [...]

The key to staying ahead of laundry…

I think I have finally found the key to staying ahead of laundry. It’s not scheduling, or washing clothes 24/7, or even my humongous LG washing machine, though all those help. Nope, I am convinced what makes women get behind on laundry are…. Wait for it…. Laundry baskets. Yup. I got rid of my laundry [...]

Why Do I Never Have a Pen?…

Using Dear Myrtle’s organization checklists, she says to first set up our desks the way we want. I did some major moving of furniture and finally I have a fairly good working desk. Then I sharpened a whole bag of pencils and put them in the pretty container a friend at work bought me last [...]

Could it be the D?…

Okay, got up, got a shower and read my email yesterday. Then went and dried my hair. So maybe I dried it funny, but I swear it had grown 2 inches over night. So right before bedtime, my bangs were driving me crazy, so I decided to trim them. I had to cut of 3/4″ [...]

Conspiracy Theory…

I need a little help opinions. As you may know I am in search of Susan Markham, (any spelling of the name) who only shows up on the 1880 census. This is what I know about Susan. She has two daughters. She was not married on the 1880 census. Her daughters were Markhams, but they [...]

Gensmarts…

Let me first say I like this program and have used it since pretty much the beginning. I rarely use the TO DO LIST function in Gensmarts, but prefer the CUSTOMIZE RECORDS FEATURE. But today’s blog is about using the TO DO LIST function, with filters to narrow down the suggestions. Today’s blog is on [...]

Coming at 11:00…

Don’t you hate it when TV stations do that. They’ll tell you there’s some vital food in your pantry that could kill you and there will be details at 11:00 on the news. Eleven p.m. and it’s now 4 p.m. and I am standing in front of the pantry trying to decide what to fix [...]