Overheard.

Hubby: “What’s up? Are you cranky today?”
Me: “No, I just don’t want anyone to talk to me.”
Hubby: “I’m pretty sure that’s cranky.”
Me: “But I feel really happy…when no one is talking to me.”
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Sassy: “MAMMA! COME UP AND WIPE MY BOOTY! I’M IN THE BATHROOM! I’VE GOT [...]

My Garden Likes to Mess With Me.

I don’t know what’s going on this year. I mean, I don’t have a green thumb by any stretch of the imagination, but everything in my garden went SO WELL last year. I really thought I was getting better at not killing off my plants.
I think my bumper crop last year [...]

Budding Herbologist. Herbatologist. Whatever.

I haven’t talked a lot about my garden this season because frankly, it’s a big fat failure. I don’t know if it was the hail, the surprising freezing temperatures at night, the freak snowstorms in May, the fact that it is possibly holding a grudge from last year, or all of those things combined…but [...]

I :heart: IKEA

When Hubby and I lived in So. Cal. while he was finishing his MBA, we lived a few miles away from an IKEA. As luck would have it, when he did a semester abroad over in Budapest, we lived a metro ride away from another IKEA–this one was bigger and even better. It’s [...]

Eureka!

There have been two things that have bothered me for the past few months. No, not the fact that I can’t cook non-rubbery chicken, or that I had to go up a shirt size when I bought new shirts at the outlet store due to my arms getting fatter (wth?!?), or that my car [...]

Let the dancing begin! Again!

Last September, the kids and I stumbled upon a video of Matt Harding dancing his way around the world. And, he’s done it again!
So, enjoy this video. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll be inspired, you’ll beg your husband for a trip around the world….

An Unschooler’s Ode to Joy.

There are times when I wonder just what in Pete’s name I am doing unschooling. Mostly this happens when my kids learning cycles are stuck in the video game/TV mode. For realz, I see them sitting around and think to myself, “Right now there are millions of kids sitting at desks doing some [...]

Celtics took it to the Lakers.

And here’s why I, someone totally disconnected from most of the NBA season, care so much about the NBA finals:

Kevin Garnett.
Hubby roped me into making an ESPN fantasy basketball team about 5 years ago to compete in a pool of other people who had made their own teams. I knew nothing about [...]

Let’s give it up for the homeschooler!!!

Golfer checked out a book about “>James K. Polk (blog about his Polk love here) from the library, and tonight Naturalist, Golfer and I sat together before bed and read it. We never know what kind of things we’ll read when we get historical non fiction books, but usually it’s inspiring in some form. [...]

Camp Highlight

Naturalist is back from Mission:Wolf camp set up by CU Science Discovery. When asked about her favorite thing, she said: “Getting wolf slobber up my nose. It’s still there!!!”
Apparently, they got REALLY up close and personal with some of the wolves. Usually, after her experiences away from home, I spend all [...]