Allergies have Istopped up nose and hacking coughI just want to breathe Oh Oklahomacottonwood trees and ragweedSpring’s overrated I want to go backto the South Texas sunshinewhere I could breathe free Read more

I’ve been reading the Bible again. Every now and again I decide to try and read the whole thing not just my favorite parts. I always pick up on new things when I do this, sometimes strange new ideas and other times, they force me to take a good hard look at myself. This time through it, I keep noticing references to the Fall of Man, Adam’s Sin, and that all evil entered the world through Adam. The post-feminist era... Read more

I am up in the middle of the night for one of my all out cleaning frenzies. Does anyone else do this? Do other people wake up in the middle of the night and suddenly realize the best way to arrange furniture in the computer room and get up at 4AM to do it? Do other families wake up to find a tired yet satisfied mother who has polished and scrubbed to her heart’s content? Or are my children the... Read more

As Murphy’s Law should have warned us, our children got sick on our first vacation in three years. Of. course. they. did. But we still got to go to the beach on Wednesday. It was the warmest day of the week, and everyone was feeling better on Tuesday night. The Computer Guy told our five Little Guys that if everyone felt better in the morning we would go to the beach. It was a warmish day, and while a bit... Read more

We are safely home from our Corpus Christi excursion, and I have lots to blog about in the upcoming days. Permit me for one brief moment to wax rhapsodic about the indispensable part of any trip south of Austin, Texas…the food. Once you start going north of Austin, the food gets Anglicized. It starts to lose some of the Mex in the Tex-Mex. In my humble opinion, Mexican food should never be snooty, should never cost more than $8 a... Read more

I’m going out of town for a few days and don’t know if I’ll be able to blog on vacation, so here’s my Friday Haiku a day early. on a vacationblissful days of no houseworktime for fun and play sand in between toescrashing surf and crying gullsbuilding sandcastles laughing children runsand dollar treasure huntingnapping in the sun real mexican foodorange grease running on the platehand made tortillas humid and stickyair so thick you can see itmy own warm blanket can’t... Read more

Alright, I’ll admit publicly what my friends and loved ones have known or suspected for years. I’m right up there in the top 10 Worst Housekeepers of all Time list. I don’t think in first or second, but probably in the middle. I didn’t even know that I was supposed to be cleaning my roof. Y’all are probably all rolling your eyes at the fact that I didn’t know that, or it could be at my use of the word... Read more

Thanks to the Caveman for reminding me of this one. Read more

  Several years before we moved into our current home, some crazy person put white linoleum on the kitchen floor. Having five children in the house makes it impossible to keep looking tidy. Even when freshly scrubbed, it still has tennis shoe scuff marks and mysterious color patches stubbornly refuse my best efforts at scrubbing them up. Then I watched the BBC’s How Clean Is Your House? I love that show!!!! it always makes me feel a bit better about... Read more

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