My thoughts on today…. I’m tired.Tired of listening to the news.Tired of lockdowns.Tired of lockouts.Tired of being bashed by media, parents, society.I’m 49 years old.I fear for the day the lockdown is in our building.I fear for the kids.They already have so many ACES of trauma.I fear for them.I fear…

How has almost an entire year passed since my last post…….ok….not quite – 10 months. Life sure does get busy these days…….but let me say that again…..LIFE GETS SO DAMN BUSY! I am barely keeping my head above water as a teacher. My kids are growing up way too fast,…

My emotions have been all over the place the past few days. Hubby mentioned my Grandpa to a friend as we talked about the MS walk tonight, and my eyes swelled with tears as I thanked God for my huge sunglasses! This afternoon I read my mom’s Facebook post about…

Today is Ash Wednesday, and once again I worked on a Lenten Photo Challenge for our church as we work on a book study reading “Love Is the Way” by Bishop Michael Curry. Each week features different chapters and the words for our Photo Challenge come from those targeted readings.…

I happened upon a Good Housekeeping recipe for grilled chicken sliders that sounded intriguing. I used that recipe for the marinade and headed over to Martha Stewart for some cucumber, radish, red onion pickles to top the sliders. Served with Pioneer Woman’s yummy smashed red potatoes and my own Mama’s…

Today, I kept telling my boys we were going to have a special feast for dinner tonight. They spent the day out in the backyard playing ball or running through the sprinkler while I sat inside and typed up more answers to the questions for my summer classes. I had…

So, this is my 1,193rd post on this blog. Crazy! Anyway, I want to send a HUGE shoutout to my Dad! The best in the business. I sent him a homemade card this year. It made me do lots of thinking about him and all he has taught me over…

I had my oral surgeon appointment today and surgery is set for my extraction on Wednesday morning of this week. In order to get in sooner rather than later, I had to be open to visit any one of the 5 locations for my intake pre-op meeting. Game on! They…

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.  But this picture right here is worth way more than that to me tonight.   Today, I was doing my regular Saturday menu-planning and grocery shopping on Instacart.  I had orders at Costco, Aldi and Cub.  My Aldi and Costco  orders were…