I am a happy person.  I like who I am (for the most part) and think people appreciate that.  I am not, however, particularly confident. My sister has always had a confidence that I didn't.  She has the ability to put herself out there and show no doubt.  I, on the other hand, am always filled with doubt.  I never assume to know anything more than anyone else on any subject other than what pertains to my specific life.  I don't believe I have any particular talent...

I think we are all familiar with Tom Cruise's advice to Brooke Shields regarding post partum depression.  Apparantly scientologists believe that psychiatry is a plot by aliens to control our minds with drugs.  Mr. Cruise has declared himself an expert on the subject.  I personally believe he himself is insane. Well, apparently a counselor of the church and her scientologist son took the advice to heart and treated the son's psychosis with vitamins and exercise rather than seeki...

A family at our school has just experienced any parent's worst nightmare.  Their fourth grade son lost his battle with cancer.  Two years ago they discovered a tumor in his brain.  He spent those two years in treatment after treatment.  The cancer spread into his spine and he passed away last night just before midnight. I am part of our schools fan out system.  I am in charge of calling a list of families when something big happens at school.  I got the call at 7...

I personally think that most sports are extremely boring to watch.  I can understand the appeal in playing or watching if you know someone is playing.  I just don't follow pro sports on TV at all. One term I don't understand at all and am hoping someone can understand is a 3-pt basket being called a field goal in basketball.  What the heck?  Soccer is on a field, football is on a field, basketball is on a....court!  Where on earth does the term come from?

Aside from wearing something green, I really don't do much on St. Pat's day.  The only times we have ever "celebrated" it was when friends would have a party.  I never even tried green beer! It seems our kids' school makes a bit of a deal out of it.  They have green snacks and have been talking about leprechauns and shamrocks.  My kindergartner even had to build a leprechaun trap. So, do you celebrate?  If so, how?

The never ending things in my life: Domestic- Laundry dishes what's for dinner? bills stacks of paperwork dusting cleaning in general Family- Love for Worry about proud of thankful for Looking forward to the future Remembering the past (just a bit of stream of consciousness writing)

I am having friends over tomorrow to scrapbook and hang out.  My house is, well, let's say less than presentable at the moment.  And what am I doing about it?  I'm sitting here blogging! I know I need to clean toilets, dust, vac, etc. but I just don't feel motivated.  I am such a procrastinator!  I let so much pile up that it feels overwhelming and I don't know where to start...so I don't. Anyone else suffer this affliction?  How do you cope?  I suppose I...

I remeber once when I was looking at a photo album with my mom when I was about 12yrs old, she said "I sure miss that little cutie pie", referring to a picture of me when I was a toddler.  I was puzzled at the time because I was sitting right there.  She explained that life is a progression where the infant becomes the toddler, the toddler becomes a preschooler, then elementary school age, teen years, young adults, middle age and elderly.  She had already lost the infant, toddler,...

The death of Dana Reeve really touched me deeply.  That family suffered such hardship, such tragedy.  Their young son has learned the 'life isn't fair' lesson in a very brutle way.  How can such wonderful people suffer such tragedy when so many horrible people sail blissfully through life? This is a question I simply can't get passed.  I have seen it day in and day out during my 35yrs of life.  Life can be so unfair.  It just doesn't make sense. I have ha...

My wonderful husband knows that one of my few hobbies is scrapbooking.  We have a digital camera which is great but the pictures are usually held hostage on my hubby's computer and it seemed like every time I wanted to print one there would be a problem with my connection to the printer or Brad would be printing out some huge document for work.  So, during his last trip to Best Buy, he purchased a PhotoMate personal photo lab.  It is sooooo cool! It was incredibly easy to set u...

Today my sister and I enjoyed High Tea at a local tea room.  It was a very lovely, very girlie afternoon.  We were surrounded by an eclectic assortment of china tea cups and saucers.  There were doilies galore and everything was flowery and lacey. We talked over a pot of orange cinnamon tea.  We had finger sandwiches, mini quiches, scones and tarts.  Everything was delicious and beautifully presented. The little tea room was cozy and smelled wonderful.  Not a ...

My 9yr old, Alex, got his hair cut today.  When he was finished the receptionist at the Salon asked him in a babyish way "Would you like a treat?"  He replied, "What to you take me for, a dog?  First you groom me, then you ask me if I want a 'treat'. (said with a grin in a stand-up comedian delivery)."  Luckily everyone in the salon burst out laughing and thought he was hilarious and clever. The lady who did his hair, the owner of the salon, said she can't get over how gro...

After reading a lot of the responses to the recent activity her on JU I felt compelled to defend a few things about the site.  First of all, I am sick to death of people claiming there should be some fear about what you write about in your blogs.  If you really believe that, you haven't been paying attention. Sure, you can't Title your blog 'So-n-So on JU is a @#$%'.  You can't make your article about what an asshole some blogger, admin or Brad is.  You can however make co...

My 5yr old is such a sweetie. We were talking the other day about where things come from and why. He knows that mommy has a baby growing in her tummy. He believes in God and that God made everything. He asked me "Do you know how God makes people?" I told him I really didn't but asked what he thought. He said "I think maybe the Tooth Fairy takes our teeth to God and he uses them to make new people when somebody dies." I thought that was a clever and imaginitive theory that I had ne...

We have had an extremely odd winter here in Michigan this year.  Yesterday it was 55 degrees and we had thunderstorms.  Thunderstorms in February!  Today it is 25 degrees and snowing.  Argh! I don't know lately weather to give the kids umbrellas or snow pants for school.  It's hard to tell if we need the snowblower or the lawn mower ready to go.  It is intimidating to plan a driving trip since you never know what kind of storm might be coming. The old Michigan...