I’m melting!

Does that make you think of the Wicked Witch of the East? That is about how I feel right now.
It is flippin’ hot. I really try not to use foul language, but when you wake up at 7 AM and it is already 81 degrees in your house there is cause for foul language. We [...]

It is hot.

It is really hot. Really, really hot. Let me see. It hit 89 degrees in my house yesterday. Doesn’t that sound like fun? Today it is going to be 93 or something like that. Tomorrow it is supposed to be 96. Fun stuff.
We don’t have air conditioning. I am not alone either. Most of the [...]

Saturday Mom Confession (I really do have a teenager)

My oldest son left for his ELS Youth Convention on Thursday. This is his first one. Our synod does allow for those going into 8th grade to go to the convention, but I am one of those mean moms that make them wait until after they are confirmed to go. It was good enough when [...]

Freckle Face has feet of steel.

Freckle Face went to the physical therapist today. Freckle Face is stronger than we all gave him credit for. I knew that he was walking around in his new orthotics on his toes. I just didn’t realize how much damage he was doing. He has stretched them out.  Brand new orthotics. Still usable, but he [...]

Saturday Mom Confession (VBS version)

VBS is over.  Thank heaven above.
It isn’t that I don’t like VBS. I do. Well, kinda, and that is my confession. I am happy that VBS is over and don’t have to think about it for another year!
 This year was a little more difficult than normal. I walked around with the 3rd and 4th graders.  All 29 of [...]

A Panic Attack

Today I will have 30 kids in my VBS class. I get to drag them from station to station, help them build dumb paper robots and other crafts, and pray that I don’t lose any of them. My oldest said he would help me, but still.
Deep breaths.
Of course, it could be worse. I could be [...]

To Melanie

I was starting to write a big, long comment in response to Melanie’s comment about the commissary and then had the brilliant idea of making it its own post because I don’t have anything very important to say right now.
First of all, I had to laugh as I read through them because I know that [...]

The commissary

I have found a couple of people that do not think that you save money by shopping at the commissary. Now, I am a commissary believer. I have 3 growing kids including one teenage boy, and I feel like I need the commissary.
Yes, it is true that sometimes I can find a product cheaper on [...]

New Orthotics 2009 style

So, I did mention in my earlier bullet post that Freckle Face got some new orthotics. I finally got around to taking a picture of them. I asked him if I could take a picture of him in them and at first he declined. Then I begged, pleaded and bribed him until he agreed. You [...]

What’cha readin’?

I have been reading a litt more than usual lately. I used to be a BIG reader. As in I could polish off a book in a day. Every day. But, that was when my kids were little, I could stay up past 10 without feeling like a zombie the next day, and I didn’t [...]