My life is great…amazing

I haven’t posted in for.ev.er and people have just been hounding me asking where I am…not. Any who… A lots been happening around here and I figure since I don’t really keep a diary I should probably write it down somewhere… 1) My baby boy has decided to enlist in the Army. In fact, he DID enlist. He has to graduate high school first, so I am doing my best to sabotage that…... [Read more]

Sorta Crunchy…

Lately I’ve been reading different simplicity/minimalism blogs. Lots of the writers have grasped minimalism because they are trying to “go green” and be more eco-friendly. I love the earth and I recycle. I do weird things like move other people’s plastic bottles from public trash cans into recycle bins– and totally embarrass my kids in the process. But I wouldn’t... [Read more]

A Morbid Post

So, my husband and I were talking about something- Idk what- that somehow led to me saying, “When I die they’re gonna have to have my funeral in the church gym, not the chapel, because of the list of songs I want played.” Seiuli, for some reason, thought that was hilarious even though I was completely serious. My dad has always said he wants “House of the Rising Sun” played... [Read more]

Unplugged

So I’ve been bombarded by emails from people asking where I went on Facebook… Just kidding- I got one email. lol But anyway, I deactivated my Facebook account for the time being. Our family has been talking about how social media, technology, etc… has really interfered with what is important. It has also introduced things into our home that I am not proud of and I don’t want... [Read more]

Our Mii Family

We have a Wii game system and love playing games on it as a family. Our new favorite is “Wii Party.” It’s great because everyone can play the games – they aren’t too hard or easy. But something else we enjoy on the Wii is making “miis.” They are the people you use to play the games with. For example is this my me: Yay! I think she looks pretty similar to me. But... [Read more]

Pillsbury Artison Pizza Crust Review and SUPER BOWL Giveaway! CLOSED

The winner picked by RANDOM.ORG is commenter #10, Janice!! I will be emailing you!!!! Congrats! Whenever I ask my family what they want for dinner it’s always either “Chicken” or “Pizza!” Well, pizza for 7 people (3 teenagers!) can get expensive. So I’ve experimented with making my own at home. This week (now that Tristan is feeling better!) I tried out Pillsbury’s... [Read more]

1st graders, and Spiders, and Tori on her Soapbox…

I’ve been working my internship for about 3 weeks now. I really enjoy it, although I think I would love it more if I was able to do my own thing instead of waiting to be told what to do. But obviously I have to learn how to do things before I can just do them!! haha At the elementary school I am mentoring a first grade boy and a 4th grade girl. It’s been interesting because they really... [Read more]

Exciting stuff… to me anyway

So far this year has had lots going on! Here’s just a few things from the last couple weeks… – Isabel scored 15 points in her last basketball game. She played an AMAZING game!!!!!  I give myself credit for giving her the “pull the pencil out” speech I gave her. She saw me type this and said “Mommmmm!!!!” – Tristan has mono. This is not exciting in a... [Read more]

I don’t do “resolutions…”

I try not to make New Year “Resolutions” because then a few months later when I realize I don’t even remember what I said I would do, I feel like a loser. haha But I have made a list of things I want to improve with myself, not really by a certain point, but just in general. 1) I need to lose weight. I let last semester get the better of me and now I would like to lose around 15 pounds.... [Read more]

Bless her heart…

So today I had to take Liv to the dentist for some dental work (obvi.) Her pediatric dentist is about 25 minutes from our house. It snowed today- random, I know- so the traffic was all slow on the highway, especially over a bridge of the lake. I was going slow, well under the speed limit, and I wasn’t close to the car in front of me. I’ve mentioned before that Isabel and I signed “I’ve... [Read more]