I knew it had been a long while since I had posted here but I didn't realize it has been about 4yrs!  I have been living via cell phone during that time so popping on FB and Twitter has filled my social media time.  I recently went back to work at our office building so I'm back on the computer! I keep up with some of my old JU buddies on FB.  I don't know if anyone who is on here these days even knows me.  I intend to start blogging again because I miss writin...

So, on April Fool's Day do you do any fooling or receive any?  What's your favorite prank?  The only one that really comes to mind for me is when kids took apart a car and reassembled it inside the school.  On a lesser scale, they picked my car up and moved it so I freaked out when it wasn't where I had parked it. I like silly pranks but don't like the ones that really freak people out and either make them upset or mad.  I think it's especially funny when something strange...

My husband has talked to our kids about the different parts of who a person is, that being 1) Instinct 2) Conditioning and 3) Who you choose to be.  I usually take those things for granted but recently observed those parts in myself while confronted with someone who is truly noone as far as I'm concerned.  This is someone who I have only read blogs of and only knew what this person put out on the internet.  As we all know, you can be anything you want to be on the internet. Thi...

When it comes to TV, my guilty pleasures are: Real Housewives series on Bravo & High School Reunion on TV Land I love to hate those Housewives and the High School Reunion show is about people my age acting out soap opera type relationships. I also like to watch Jon & Kate Plus 8 because it makes me feel so much better about my own life One of my new fav shows that I have no guilt about is The Doctors.  They provide so much real life information about extremely co...

Today our son Ryan’s class had a “Wax Museum”.  They all dressed the part of a historical person and gave a one minute speech whenever a person came up and pushed their “button”.  Ryan was Milton Hershey and was very popular  

I have a real problem.  I spend way too much time on Facebook.  I am totally addicted....help me! The more friends I got the more I was lead to people I hadn't seen in decades.  I'm friends with my 4th grade teacher now!  I have friends all over the place.  Their pictures take me back to my childhood or bring me up to speed on what's going on now. I made a comment about missing MST3K and a friend introduced me to it's new incarnation, Cinematic Titanic.  It's ...

I was thinking about Brandie today and noticed she hasn't been seen around here in about a month.  I know she's getting pretty close to baby time.  Does anyone know how she's doing?

My husband and I were discussing the meaning of the term "tool" as in "you're being a real tool".  I wonder how many people say stuff like that without knowing what the original meaning of the term is.  Have you ever said something and then wondered what it was truly supposed to mean? We use all sorts of abbreviations all the time too.  I wonder how many people know what RSVP means (probably only those who know French).  Everyone uses it and knows that it is asking for a r...

Last Christmas we got our oldest son a nice keyboard because he expressed an interest in learning to play.  For whatever reasons (baseball, swim lessons, etc.) we never got going on lessons.  That is changing come 11/11! I got a flier in our mailbox about a teacher that will come to your house...how perfect!  It turns out our neighbor two doors down takes lessons from her and says she's great.  I contacted her and not only are we set to start my son on lessons, I'm going t...

Here's my crew just before they headed out on Halloween.  We had fantastic weather and a good time was had by all. Don't they look great?!

    Here are the red and blue jello brains.  I think they came out pretty well.  I'm done with making brains for now.  Happy Halloween!!

I had the bright idea to volunteer to make jello brains for my son's school Halloween party.  I just got a new mold that I figured I'd use for our own Halloween party.  I plan to put it on a platter with a place card that says "Abbey- normal".  I've never made a jello brain and now I'm signed on to make 4! So you have to prop the mold up in the frig and then pour the jello in.  Guess what happened...yep, I spilled purplish red jello all over everything in my frig.  Fo...

I just had to post this because I thought it was too funny not to share

This will be one of my rambling, just feel like writing it down blogs. First off, my coffee grinder died!  This is a very big deal.  I survive mainly on coffee and have become pretty picky about it.  I'm picky about the coarsenss of grind, strength and type of creamer (my current fav is Italian Sweet Cream).  I had to resort to pre-ground coffee.  It still sure beats no coffee! I woke up with what I wouldn't call pain but more discomfort with two of my teeth. ...

This is basically what my washer and drier are like.  They are really tall and are really crammed into my little laundry room.  I have never liked my laundry room but dislike transitioned to downright hate this morning when I discovered the painful little room was flooded! At some point during the last couple of days, my stupid washer started leaking from the cold water connection.  It is close to impossible to see behind the huge machine so it wasn't discovered until t...