This, That, and the Mother Thing

People have asked me how I can work full time, be a mother, garden, knit, geek, and whatever else it is I do with my days. Do you know wha...

OMG.  Are you on Pinterest?  Follow me and I'll follow you back.  I LOVE that site.  All these great ideas of crafts for me to do, activ...

I realized that the last post left folks at the critical point without much resolution.  We were in the hospital and not getting out any tim...

So, why not a bar in a hospital?  Who needs it more than those of us spending the night with our sick loved ones and are too revved up to ge...

Greetings from the hospital. Everything is going to be ok.  But Christopher doesn't have pneumonia; he has RSV .  I think it's goo...

Sometimes, I have to blog to get some things out of my head so that I can move forward and do other things (e.g., work). So Christopher ha...

The kids are saying some very cute things lately and I want to remember them before it's too late.  Despite our first blog's semi-di...

Hmmm, wasn't there a Jimmy Buffet song that went something like "If the phone doesn't ring, it's me?"  I seem to recal...

She's crafty - she's gets around She's crafty - she's always down She's crafty - she's got a gripe She's cra...

((Insert comments about how busy I've been here)) OK!  Now that we have my excuses over, I'm going to talk about something that I...

Conor is starting first grade in two weeks. For some reason that seems so much older to me than kindergarten. It has a real number! We a...

So, imagine my chagrin after I posted my seemingly witty and insightful (by my standards) update about how much easier it gets when the kids...

I'm not sure it gets better (like in the campaign I like so much), but I want to tell mothers of twins (or MOMs) that it gets easier whe...

We've been busy. Dave is building a tree house. I'm working in an amazingly prolific garden. The twins had their second birthday. An...

I am so lame. I've been wanting to blog for weeks, but the ability to get to this computer (with the pictures) during a time when I had...

What an amazing weekend. There is something about the south in the spring that is prettier than any other season in any other part of the c...

I know that most people on the Internets are not on Twitter. The latest stats are that only 10% of folks on the Internets are also on Twitt...

I hate to keep changing the background and layout of my blog, but I am still not completely satisfied with it. I would like it to be fancy ...

Hmmm, apparently, I've used this same title for a blog previously. Oh, Lord. We have had some sickness around here. It's taken ab...

Did you hear about the recent ESP research published in a top psychology journal ? No, that is actually not the start of a joke. There act...