Three times a week, I take LittleDude to his Tae Kwon Do lesson. The moment we get home, I cook up a frozen Chicken Cordon Bleu, cut it up and put it into a plastic container, and LittleDude eats that for dinner while MiniMe takes her Tae Kwon Do lesson.
Usually, the […]

Sometimes it’s the little things that make a huge difference in your day. Other times, it’s the offensive things.
Yesterday, it was a trip to the grocery store that boosted my spirit and made me smile. Why? Because as I pulled into the parking lot, some guy in a delivery truck whistled at […]

I got to talk to my father last weekend. He lives overseas, and we don’t talk as often as we should. Probably has something to do with the fact that we’re cut from the same cloth and both equally stubborn.
Anyway, he called to see how we’re doing in the aftermath of the accident. […]

I remember the first time I read in the newspaper of the possibility of the gray wolf being removed from the endangered species list. I remember questioning the reasoning — it seemed the wolves had only just barely been reintroduced in Yellowstone, and here we were, about to release them to be decimated from […]

With all the doom and gloom I’ve been erratically posting lately, I thought I’d give you kind of a fun story today.
Okay, so the real reason I’m posting this is I finally got the pictures downloaded from my phone. But it’s still fun. Trust me.

It’s been nearly a month since the accident, and we’re still dealing with it. We did get some closure on one front, though. Insurance paid their part of the payoff, we’re waiting for Gap insurance to finish (could be 4-6 weeks). Thankfully, the bank worked with us and lowered our payment — […]

WARNING: VERY LONG POST
Thanks for your comments and support regarding our accident. The stress this has brought us is beyond believable, and it just keeps coming.
We had the accident on Saturday the 15th. Most of the state was under tornado watches and warnings. We were on our way to the other […]

I haven’t been around lately. Been gone so long in fact, I doubt there’s anybody still checking in with me. But just in case there is…
I disappeared because I’d had some upheavals in my life that had me questioning who I was and what I was doing. After floundering a while, I […]

Deep in my revision cave. Had a great lightbulb moment yesterday on the way to pick MiniMe up from school. I think I’ve got an idea on how to fix one of the problems that editor mentioned. So I’ll probably continue to be quiet until I get this done.
BTW — got my […]

But just the good stuff, I promise.
First, I have actually made headway with NaNoWriMo. Not as much as I’d like, but I did it. However, it does look like I’ll have to put it aside — and that I’ll explain later. At least I know I was capable.
Yesterday was a HUGE anniversary […]

Day One
As far as writing days go, it’s not looking like it’s going to be a very good one. The kids returned to school today after their abbreviated Fall Break (abbreviated because they got a long summer this year). Halloween was last night. And we just got home yesterday from a mini-vaca […]

Things never happen when you want them to.
Here in North Georgia, we’ve all been praying for rain, but have seen very little. We did manage to get some early this week ( ), just not enough to make a difference. But that’s not what this post’s about.
Normally, it only rains […]

So I’ve been battling some emotions lately, some stress, and like an idiot, I go and read the newspaper today. Apparently, Atlanta-area lakes have reached critical point and the Army Corps of Engineers is partially to blame; they found a new dinosaur (well, his bones anyway) in Argentina; a street-racing 15-year-old killed somebody in […]

I’ve been pretty absent the past week or so — I apologize. I guess I should amend that statement to specify that I’ve been absent from the internet, because I’ve been here and busy as all get out. I somehow managed to wrangle myself into taking pictures at MiniMe’s soccer games and LittleDude’s […]

I don’t do bugs.
What I mean to say is I don’t do well with bugs. They freak me out, and I’ve been known to go a little nuts when they manage to get on me. My children find this amusing, and even Tess enjoyed once being treated to a demonstration of how I […]