I hate trying to navigate around the streets in the Dallas area.  The streets meander and wind their way around and don’t make obvious sense in their layout.  It’s because they’re laid out by livestock and not by engineer.  Most of the roads around the older parts of town date back to the time when folks were driving around in buggies and the paths were those which were easiest to drive a team over.  They might be the most direct... Read more

 1. I like to eat an apple in the morning for breakfast because I like the sweetness and the crunch.  It’s a very satisfying thing, that crunch.  But this morning we were all out of apples, so I went looking for a substitute. Bananas are sweet-ish, but no crunch. Cauliflower has crunch though, so I went with that. That’s when I discovered that you have to eat a lot of cauliflower before you will feel full from just eating cauliflower.... Read more

Alert the committee! I have this year’s award sewn up!  Don’t even think that you’ve got a shot at it.  Puh-lease…I’m measuring my head for the MOTY tiara right now. Earlier today, I got all over my 12 year old (in front of the neighbors) for flopping all over the couch and being dramatic in the way only a pre-teen boy can be. “Are you sick?” I grilled him. “No? Then knock it off. What is wrong with you today?”... Read more

Helping LarryD take over the internet one meme at a time! 1. #2 has decided that he’s going to run cross country this year with the homeschool track team.  It’s the perfect sport for a family with crazy schedules.  He’ll train at home and then run in the weekend meets under our homeschool association’s banner.  He came to me and said, “Hey, Mom, you used to run.  Can you help me?”  I was delighted to in no small part because... Read more

It’s been a long weekend of preparing for school and readying my house to transform back into a classroom.  It’s hard to believe that we’re beginning our 11th year of homeschooling.  How can it have gone by so quickly?  It seems like just last week that I had #1 sitting at our kitchen table in Moore as I taught her to carefully write her alphabet. Her handwriting is just as awful now as it was at 4 years old.  Poor... Read more

Helping LarryD take over the internet one meme at a a time! Know what I love to do?  I mean really, really love to do?  Throw a party.  I like the decoration, the balloons!, food, the planning, the happy people….I love a party.  Right up at the top of my list for fun to throw is a shower…baby….bridal…I don’t care….except that I truly prefer to throw the bridal before the baby shower….anyway…. I was just sitting here this morning thinking... Read more

I don’t like to ask unless it’s important, and it is. My sister in law, who is 24 weeks pregnant with my niece, has developed kidney stones.  She has a stone in her kidney right now which is too big for her to pass, 1.5 cm, and she is too pregnant for them to break it up and take it out.  The stone is keeping the kidney from draining properly, so they are putting a stent in it this morning... Read more

“All my soul, with singing, offered for a sacrifice to thee.”  ~Eia, Jesu Adorande, John Mauburn. 1494 All my soul.  With singing. Singing. It’s the paradox of Christianity in a simple phrase, isn’t it?  Joyful sacrifice.  Let me give to Him everything that I am.  Let me offer to Him my very soul. But let me do it singing. It is so easy to fall into the trap of thinking of sacrifice of any kind as a burden, as painful,... Read more

It’s Friday morning and I feel in the need for a moment of confession.  Not the kind that calls for a priest, although I’m sure I need that, too.  I just need this moment to say “Hi.  My name is Rebecca, and I’m addicted to looking at my friends’ Facebook photos.” Not really even the photos of my real friends, but the people I know.  I love Facebook photos.  I sit in my chair, nursing the baby, and pick a... Read more

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