I so love my boys.  As a middle school special education teacher, let me say that again. I. Love. My. Boys.  I don’t think I was cut out for the drama of girls.  Although, I know I will miss my boys when they grow up and meet their spouses.  I…

  Today, we went to the Minnesota History Center to renew our membership; check out the Suburbia exhibit, which ends tomorrow; and spend some quality time together. It was fun to walk around and hear the boys giggling and getting excited about the exhibits.  The photos I snapped above are…

Wow!   Spring break has come to an end.  The boys and I went to Illinois to visit with my family.   Keith stayed back in MN.  I always feel badly when he uses all of his vacation each year to visit my family.  Anyway, I digress. My goal as…

Wow…how time flies.  (I know, I always say that!) the past couple of months have been very dear to me.  I think Shrek was on to something when he explained to Donkey that ogres are like onions.  (Love that scene!)  People have lots and lots of layers to them.  Sometimes walls are…

I have run into work a few days in June to move my office and then in July and early August to do interviews.  Today was the first day I could sit back and just work… slowly chipping away at all that needs to get done in the next 3…

Where does the time go?? Sometimes I think I should give up this blog, but then other times I think about how cool this is for my kids when they get older.  With Facebook and Twitter, I definitely post lots of things, but I guess I never really get to really…

I attended an awesome conference last week.  One of the quotes that stuck with me was “If you’re too busy to reflect, you are too busy to learn.”  I could go so many directions with this blog post, but I am going to move forward.  I lost one of my…

That’s all I got tonight.  In just a few more days I will be in Chicago with my boys visiting my family.  I cannot wait!!!!!! Melissa

Where do the weekends go? Saturday we did some spring cleaning around the house… and then we actually made progress out in the garage.  Hubby drove over 4 boxes of stuff to Goodwill.  I threw out a lot of things, and I even unpacked the last 3 boxes from our kitchen…