What does it say about you household when your 2 year old can build a gun and a dagger out of Legos, and when he sees a picture of a ruler starts shrieking with glee “Hey, that’s my sword!” Read more

I’m about up to here with the sue-er people.  You know those people, right? The “I slipped on a grape and now I’m going to own all your stuff” kind of people? Those people are not my favorite.  They’re responsible for taking this whole bad situation with #4 and making it about 11 times harder than it ever needed to be.  Because of them, the medical people are all afraid of being sued. Like yesterday.  Oh my goodness.  Yesterday……….. Hang... Read more

Earlier today, I posted a sponsored Mother’s Day give-away from my friend Scottie at Simply You jewelry.  (Have you entered yet?  You should.) She was so pleased with the response and impressed by the blogging community that she offered to do a fundraiser to benefit something near and dear to many of us. We’re holding a fundraiser for the kids at For the next 2 weeks (ending April 26th), 20-30% (depending on the amount of sales) of all jewelry purchased... Read more

It’s the middle of April (almost) which means it’s time to forget about that dumb bunny and his eggs and start thinking of more important things…..like Mother’s Day presents! A few weeks back, I asked readers if they had anything they thought would make a great gift for the mom in your life (yours, your kids’, the mom you wish was yours…) and got some great responses.  (I still have more room in the month if you have a product... Read more

Helping LarryD take over the Catholic blogosphere one Tuesday at a time. I said to a friend a little bit ago that right now “I’m a little bit too busy for fun” The honest statement of that makes me both exhausted and sad.  How can a person be too busy to have fun?  How can I, with my snail slime laziness, be that busy?  There are so many things I want to do when the “someday” arrives when I have... Read more

“It could be worse, it could be ..(fill in the blank)..” I’ve lost count of the number of times people have said this to us in the last few months.  They don’t know what to say and are trying to look on the bright side of something awful.  They are trying to offer us a twisted kind of hope. I wish they would stop. “At least it’s not cancer.” This is the most frequent one we hear.  Cancer is a... Read more

Sweet #7 has learned to flip onto her back.  The only problem with that is that she hates being on her back.  I put her down for her nap all snuggled in with her binky and her blanket and start took sneak out of the room when …...wail!!!!!!!!!! She’s on her back again. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve tried to discuss this with her (usually around 3 AM-ish) “Sweet girl, you hate to be on your... Read more

When life hands you lemons……at least make sure your cane is cute! Read more

The rain poured off my roof this afternoon, and the pea-sized hail clattered on our patio. The tornado sirens wailed to life, quieted down, and then howled again. My Oklahoma children came screaming down the stairs and dashing in my general direction. “Where is the tornado?” my 10 year old asked with barely consoled terror. He knows tornadoes, they all do. A lifetime in Oklahoma has taught them that fear.I glanced up from folding laundry to see the weather maps... Read more

After a lot of thought and prayer and a wee bit of research, I’m adding St Alphonsus to theside bar and asking for his prayers and patronage.  St Alphonsus became a doctor of the Church and was a prolific writer despite suffering crippling arthritis. Glorious Saint Alphonsus, loving Father of the poor and sick, all your life you devoted yourself with a charity really heroic to lightening their spiritual and bodily miseries. Full of confidence in your tender pity for... Read more