I know everyone has opinions about this stuff so please share them. How old is too old... to have babies to have long hair to wear a bikini to go to night clubs to wear a pony tail to wear low ride jeans to play paint ball to play with Legos to be considered young?

I just got tagged so I guess I have to think up 5 of my most embarrassing childhood moments....here goes: The first two are separate parts of a single incident- 1) I won't say how old I was at the time but I was still technically a child.  I can't remember why I was upset or mad but whatever it was prompted me to take off on my bike with my sister chasing behind.  We lived on a dangerous, winding country road with deceptively hilly spots.  I happened to head down one particu...

My 36th birthday is coming up next month and whenever anyone asks me what I want, I blank.  So I thought I would write down things that I thought of today before they are lost in my pregnancy brain. Usually I ask for my favorite carrot cake.  This year I would prefer ice cream sundaes.  I have been craving ice cream non stop since I've been pregnant and it is usually nice and hot for my birthday. I actually have some jewelry now but could really use a jewelry cleaner and a n...

My home is filled with toys.  I have two young sons and a husband who is very in touch with his inner child.  There are baseball gloves (3 of them), legos, action figures and star wars toys everywhere!  All three boys (that is including my husband) have comic books everywhere.  All three play computer games.  I think the only things the boys play with that Brad doesn't are the stuffed animals and pokemon cards.  He's right in there on the rest of the toys though...

This week has been nothing but rain!  I know it is good for all of the vegetation and at least it hasn't been cold, but enough already!  We need the sun back! The gloomy, rainy days are making me want to do nothing other than sleep.  I can't wait to be able to send the kids back outside to play after school.  Their baseball and tee-ball teams haven't gotten a chance to get going yet.  We need sunshine! I got my 3rd grader off to school this morning and strongly con...

I remember quite clearly the events of March 30, 1981.  I was 11yrs old and watched in horror as footage showed our President, secret serviceman and James Brady getting shot over and over again.  The image of Brady face down in a pool of blood was burned into my brain instantly. Of course the overexposure of the video had to be made fun of and SNL was just the show to do it.  My dad, much to my mom's dismay, let us stay up and watch Saturday Night Live on occasion (he also let ...

I caught a Faith Hill and Tim McGraw video on TV while flicking channels and couldn't help thinking "Why on Earth should two people be so beautiful and talented?!"  They make singing look effortless.  They make the simple act of walking look like something I simply can't do. There are so many things I hate about my body.  Many are from my own doing but many are from genetic "gifts".  I have pale skin that simply doesn't tan.  Freckling and burning are the only things ...

It is so beautiful out right now.  It literally looks like we are inside a snow globe that just got a good shake.  Big snowflakes are fluttering in every direction. Nothing is sticking though.  There is still green grass as far as the eye can see.  So weird!  Michigan is usually battling big snow banks this time of year (not that I'm complaining). I remember saying that I wish we would just have snow for Christmas and then have it gone by New Years.  Guess I w...

Doesn't it seem like a lot of things go crazy this time of year?  Cars, furnaces, etc. die at the least opportune time.  You get a big snow and your snowblower quits (this happened to me last week).  The test of your luck is how things work out in the end. I haven't decided if my luck is good or just weird.  Bad stuff often happens at very inopportune times but it usually ends up okay.  I realize things could be a lot worse afterward but at the time I just figure, "wh...

My 9yr old son always seems to have deep thoughts right before bed and right when he gets up in the morning.  He usually has interesting questions regarding how things work or why God made things they way they are.  I just felt like sharing his latest with you.  Yesterday he woke up and immediately asked "How come in baseball a strike is a bad thing but in bowling it's a really good thing?" Clever, isn't he.  Can you answer that one?

As those of you who know me or have been reading my blog,  I am by default, a happy, content person.  I enjoy being at home, watching my baby play or listening to my kids talk to each other.  Happiness to me is sitting down to dinner as a family and tucking everyone safely in at night. The down side of being a content person is you don't tend to be driven.  There isn't a lot that compels me to go out and strive to tackle new challenges.  I have no chip on my shoulder ...

Today turned out to be a bit more stressful than I had hoped.  I simply planned to take my baby for a picture with Santa at the mall and then mail a Christmas package at the post office.  So I had the baby all dressed up and ready to go and got a call to pick my son up from school because he wasn't feeling well...here we go. At least I got an appointment with the pediatrician right away but they didn't have anything informative to tell.  They said he is probably coming down wit...

I think we are all guilty at one time or another of claiming we don't have time for something.  Sometimes there literally is no time if it is a task that has a deadline.  But in general, there are things in life that we always claim we don't have time for that, let's face it, we just haven't made a priority.  Now I'm not saying these things that we don't prioritize aren't things that we would like to do.  I'm sure we would all like to exercise, call our friends, scrapboo...

I was just thinking about Halloween since my boys have been talking about what they want to be this year.  My favorite costume, although I had a lot of great ones, had to be the alien costume my mom made in 4th grade.  It had an arm made out of dryer tubing with a rubber glove sewed on the end sticking out of the middle of my back.  People kept shaking the hand on my back   My put crazy braids in my hair, painted extra mouths and eyes on my face and I loved it! So what wa...

I don't know about anyone else but I think Gradparents' Day is just another Hallmark day conjured up in an attempt to guilt people out of their money.  How many people even know about it?  Who is the jerk who came up with it? You have to be a parent to be a grandparent, correct?  As a parent, you already get honored on Mother's or Father's day, correct?  Why should you then get a "Grandparents'" day? I am pretty sure my mom was making fun of the "holiday" by saying "I s...