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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Daughter Number Three finally got her room cleaned this week. We’ve been after her for longer than I care to admit to get it picked up, but she’s been complaining that there just isn’t a place to put all the […]

We were lecturing talking to the kids about how, as you get older you realize that something you didn’t think twice about as a kid looks more like a major ordeal when you’re older.
The best example I could thin of was when my parents sold the house in Massachusetts and moved to Oklahoma. When […]

I got a phone call yesterday afternoon from my eye doctor. They were calling to let me know that my right eye is scheduled for June 30. On the one hand, I’m really looking forward to getting this done because the vision in the eye that’s been fixed has gone from about 20-400 to 20-30. […]

The Obnoxious Neighbor finally went home. He’s been over here most of the day today complaining about his driveway and, more specifically, the large trenches on either side of it. It seems that his even-more-obnoxious kid has trouble getting his obniously loud car in and out of the driveway without falling into one of the […]

Daughter Number Four has been making noises recently about the idea of saving her allowance untils she has enough to buy a refurbished laptop. I got curious and had to go see what was for sale in the price range she was talking about.
I found this Asus notebook for $499. It features an Intel […]

I was talking to my older sister the other night - online, of course, since she’s now living in South Korea - and she was telling me about some of the genealogy research she’s done on our mother’s side of the family. She’s managed to trace Mom’s ancestry dna back to pre-Revolutionary War Massachusetts. She’s […]

Daughter Number Three is all up in arms. It seems that one of her friends mentioned to her that they were having a problem with zits and wanted to find the best acne treatment for them. Now, and I’m still not 100% sure how we got from there to here, my daughter is obsessing over […]

Yesterday was our youngest’s birthday and, while I wouldn’t exactly call it a “party”, we did have the whole family over and she received gifts from all concerned.
Our little one-year-old powerhouse got a pair of sandals, a glow worm thingy that turns into a musical night light when squeezed, and a “pounding bench” that has […]

My sister forwarded me another email this morning that I simply MUST rant about. I’m sure most people have probably seen this email in one form or another; according to snopes.com, it’s been circulating since August of 2006.
The email in question talks about how this person was stung by a bee and they simply put […]

We were talking about the school’s project of remodeling their library and Daughter Number Two cheerfully informed us that the school she graduated from last year was remodeling their chapel (yes, they had a chapel. They also had dormitories and the kids stayed there all year even though they were just in high school) so […]