Just a mere six more days to go until summer break, Most teachers would perhaps see that number as a misprint and say it to be five days, but what with my preschool being the only preschool in the entire fifty states to work on Memorial Day I thinkI’ll stick with six and feel sligthly [...]

The camper my mom bought a couple of weeks ago is a sportman’s edition, this means it is the same as any other  camper except inside it has some sort of gun cabinet instead of a plain one and it also has camo accents in the interior. This is a fact we both find hilarious [...]

Eight more days ’til summer.
That’s no bummer.
No preschool kids for me
Three months to be sort of free.
I’ll still have my own.
That won’t change ’til their grown.
But to be done teaching,
Devoid of all the screeching,
To quote the Cure, “Sounds like Heaven.”
And after tomorrow the days number seven….

“Mom, you say the worst things! You’re awful!” Loren said this to me on our drive home yesterday from camping as Devon slumbered in the back seat. We had been discussing some of his school mates who are sort of in the monster truck/back country wheeling scene, a group so foreign to me that I [...]

I had no idea RV camping could be so exhausting; I hurt everywhere from the whole experience. On the flip side, my three kids spent an entire weekend together, something they have not done in my presence in far too long. There were times when I wanted to leave them by the roadside to avoid [...]

God help us all for today we are embarking on a family outing: a camping trip. It has been at least a year and a half since we have done anything all together; Loren is often off striking some sort of cool teen pose, Cass is a budding socialite, which leaves Devon and me at [...]

These past couple of months have been so hectic that at times I have actually misplaced several days at a time. I have shown up for appointments I haven’t yet made and skipped others all together because I thought they weren’t to be for another week or so. It has gotten so out of hand [...]

As he slammed down the stairs from my loft I followed him with, “You can’t always get what you want, Loren. But you can try real hard.” And with that the Stones fired to life in my head and I was back in college when I saw them at Arrowhead stadium and was in the [...]

Although I spent most of the day in bed resting my poor back I never got it together to post. And now the clock is striking 12. Here’s to tomorrow….

My old back injury has flared up with a vengeance. I was mowing the back yard/hill area over the weekend and by Sunday night I was hobbling like an old woman. Yesterday I went to see the chiropractor, a man I always hope is not a flaming quack when I entrust my spinal column into [...]