They stalk me.
Every year, no matter where we live, a certain creature comes from nowhere to invade my house. My house ONLY. No one else on the block has this problem.
They crawl around on my walls. On my floors and cabinets and furniture. They hang out in my pantry so I […]

Saw this on the Today Show this morning. Very cool. My husband and I have been doing little green things, like changing out our light bulbs and using recycled stuff whenever possible so this is neat. You can cancel those annoying catalogs you get flooded with in the mail all at one […]

Well, I’m home and mostly recovered from the trip. The wedding was beautiful, and it was nice seeing all the family again. Unfortunately, Brennan got sick on the way home, so he’s dealing with that now, and my neuralgia flared up, so for the past couple of days I’ve been in excruciating pain. […]

What’s that saying…when it rains, it pours?
Boy, howdy.
A couple of weeks ago, our desktop computer died. Really died. Like, it won’t even start. Thankfully, I don’t use that computer except when I need to print something out. So the thing needs to be sent to Dell for repair…but doing so will […]

that when you activate the “self-propelled” switch on a lawnmower, it makes mowing the lawn about a million times easier…

My cable/internet/phone keep going out thanks to the storms in the area. Well, there aren’t any storms right this minute, but everything keeps going out. And dealing with the cable/internet/phone company? Let’s just say that my blood pressure is generally lower than average, but right now my head is about to blow […]

So now that my son can ride a bike, my husband and I went and bought mountain bikes yesterday. We live in such a beautiful area of Virginia, with bike trails and historical sights, that we want to take advantage of all that with some family time and evening rides.
It was funny, though, shopping […]

Two days ago, my ten year old son FINALLY learned to ride a bike. Yes, he’s ten. And he’s never learned.
It’s not that we haven’t tried to teach him. In fact, we just bought him his fourth bike. There are long stories behind each of the other three bikes and attempts […]