Helping LarryD take over the internet one meme at a time. 1. I had such plans for celebrating the first anniversary of the 3 1/2’s.  I had pictures and funny stories to go with them. Someone else had other plans.  The phone with all my photos is lost somewhere in the house.  After 3 days of furious cleaning, organizing, and throwing things away….there is still no sign of my poor, lost, dead phone. Instead of funny and touching, you get... Read more

“I’ll bet I can reach it if we put the ladder on top of the coffee table!” Sometimes it’s best to not ask what’s going on. Read more

**I will be adding to this throughout the day, so check back in with me. Please feel free to leave your own gratitudes in the the com box** 5:30 AMI’m thankful for: The stillness of the house in the wee hours of the morning.  All I can hear is the hum of the refrigerator  and the clacking of the keyboard.  I love the calm of everyone else being tucked in bed and sleeping. Electricity – Let’s be honest, we’re never... Read more

Last year at Thanksgiving time, I was holding a new baby and trying to create new family traditions just for us.  This year, I’m just missing my family.  It’s funny, because they’re not even mine, they’re the Computer Guy’s, but they’re the family I had for 17 years…and I miss them.  We were supposed to have my in laws here this week, my husband’s parents, his brother and sister in law….they had to cancel their plans and it’s just us... Read more

Way back in February, when we started on our JRA adventure and the drug cocktail that comes with it, the doctors and nurses were all very reassuring. “Giving the shots is hard in the beginning, but it gets easier over time.” “Just wait a few months and it will be routine.” All the promises of easier and better have not come true.  Even as my own skill at injections has improved, it has gotten harder and harder to take. The... Read more

How can it be that my baby is one year old already? Wasn’t it just last week that she was a snuggly warm lump curled up in my arms? How can it be that she is this big of a girl so soon? Wasn’t it just yesterday that we were at her Baptism? Smelling her sweet chrism-ed head? How did it go so quickly?  How can this first precious year be gone? We’ve gone from newborn gangly limbs to something... Read more

Somebody give this kid a tissue, first of all.  Please, stop wiping your nose with your hand! The taxpayers of the United States have supported this young man for 3 years of college and in excess of $70,000.  In all that time, he has neither learned how to be an honest man, use proper grammar, nor how to use a tissue.  I think he owes the taxpayers a refund. “I’m me.” The world does not owe him anything for being... Read more

This morning I was up long before anyone else in my house. That kind of deep silence and peace of 5:30 doesn’t seem to happen at any other time of the day.  As I snuggled under the warm blankets, I decided “I’m going to say a rosary.  I can say one uninterrupted because they’re all sleeping”  Little did I realize that the biggest distraction might just be me. I began with the Creed, and couldn’t remember it all.  It was... Read more

After the craziness of the election last week, I needed to stop and catch my breath for a moment.  Luckily, today was a national holiday [Veteran’s Day (observed)] which meant a good chance to change gears. We took the day off from school for a day I’ve affectionately named “National Pick Up After Ourselves Day”.  It’s kinda trendy sounding….it could catch on.  You never know with these things. In the spirit of my new favorite totally-made-up-and-only-in-this-house not-really-national national holiday, I... Read more

A family which is very dear to mine is living in subsidized housing after leaving the military.  The wife is in college and the husband has started his own company after finding a difficult job market in the civilian world. They are hard working and determined people, and are determined to succeed for their own sake and that of their children. He recently told the following story : So, the other day, I was waiting in the parking lot for... Read more