Is It Really Starting In a Week?

School, I mean. Is it really starting next Wednesday? That seems so…soon. Summer just sped on by. It seems like just yesterday they were bringing home the last of their class papers and celebrating the first day of no school. And here we are – a week away from the first day of 2nd grade [...]

Brain Dump

1) Saw a report on Yahoo! News today that people are suffering record low credit scores. Gee, you think? With hundreds of thousands millions of homeowners filing for bankruptcy or simply being irresponsible and walking away from mortgages they don’t want to pay for, it’s no surprise that their credit scores stink. I was telling [...]

Boomerang Bay Beat Belmont!

Today the kids and I were up and out of the house by 9:30 a.m. to go to Carowinds for the day. I had intended to take CootieBoy last night but Denis ended up hitting a happy hour with some co-workers, so I wasn’t able to take him. But this morning I took both kids, [...]

The First Day Of Summer? Sure!

It’s not technically summer yet, but Memorial Day is upon us, and with that our neighborhood pool opened. Our ability to attend the grand opening party was almost put in jeopardy when CG went to bed early with an upset stomach and promptly threw up an hour later. It was nasty, y’all. Seriously. I thought [...]

Carowinds Coasters

On Sunday the afternoon was dragging, and I could tell that the kids were bored. We hadn’t gone to church that morning (I slept in since I was so wiped out from the garage sale the day before), so CG and CB were wound up with energy. At some point I had had enough, and [...]

A Successful Garage Sale!

Well, we hoped to make $500 during our garage sale, but we knew going into it that that was a lofty goal. We didn’t have nearly as much out there as we were considering. But we still made $250! AND we got rid of some stuff that was cluttering the house. Anything that didn’t sell [...]

Flurry!

It has been a week of much activity and as such I’ve been ignoring Cootiehog. Sorry about that. For Mother’s Day weekend we drove to Winchester, VA to visit my parents, who had just moved into their new house. They are in the process of a year-long retirement phase, and this was the first major [...]