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Archive for May, 2008

South West Trip Part 1

Posted: Thursday, May 15th, 2008 @ 5:00 am in West Trip | No Comments »

Back when I became a mom I had one recurring dream, ok, as a mom you have many dreams for your kids but one dream in particular was to take them out west on a cross-country trip to see this great and beautiful country of ours (sorry to my overseas readers but here I’m talking […]

THINK

Posted: Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 @ 7:57 pm in Family Stuff | No Comments »

THINK!
In every family there’s a favorite saying, a phrase or in our case a single word, that gets shouted often.
For us it is said often, frequently, way too often and always directed at our eldest child.  THINK, PLAN, ACT was what we said often during his early childhood years but lately it […]

DIY — Kitchen Remodel Part V

Posted: Monday, May 12th, 2008 @ 7:13 pm in kitchen | No Comments »

If you’ve ever watched This Old House you know that in any remodeling job there are always surprises.  And rarely is a surprise good.  We’ve had our share of nasty surprises too—-for instance when we pulled the dry wall off our living room wall in our New England home we discovered that […]

Happy Mom’s Day

Posted: Sunday, May 11th, 2008 @ 12:27 am in Family Stuff | No Comments »


DIY — Kitchen Remodel Part IV

Posted: Saturday, May 10th, 2008 @ 8:15 pm in kitchen | 1 Comment »

The cabinets are in the garage waiting for Kristi to pick them up tomorrow, the floor is slowly being ripped off, and the mess is here!

What a difference a day makes!

DIY–Kitchen Remodel Part 3

Posted: Friday, May 9th, 2008 @ 10:45 pm in kitchen | 1 Comment »

WAAAAYYYYYY back in October I posted about a new pantry DH installed in my kitchen. OH, have I ever enjoyed having that pantry with pull-out shelves. So much space and so easy to get to everything too. Over the past few months DH has been building cabinets and shelves, […]

Frankie

Posted: Friday, May 9th, 2008 @ 10:01 am in Family Stuff | No Comments »

For readers of mine who also visit Frankie over at Kitchen-Table Learners, she and Thomas went back to see her Dad. He took a turn for the worst, and I hope she doesn’t mind me sharing that here but I’m sure she would appreciate your prayers and good thoughts right now.

In-Line Speed Skating

Posted: Thursday, May 8th, 2008 @ 8:07 am in Family Stuff | No Comments »

Yes, they are enjoying this sport.

MK leading the pack.

SK moving fast

Look at that leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeean.

ps– that little skater in blue, is all of 6yo and oh my, does she move fast!
pss–she gets right back up when she falls.
psss—we hope to see her skate at Nationals in mid-July in Lincoln, Nebraska

Frugal Friday Idea

Posted: Friday, May 2nd, 2008 @ 4:36 pm in Family Stuff | No Comments »

I had a great thing happen to me on my last shopping trip ham’s were on sale, 1/2 price sale. So instead of the full ham being $34 something it was $17 something. At the register my clerk was running things quickly through the scanner and I wasn’t really watching. […]

Check out my FOR SALE Items

Posted: Friday, May 2nd, 2008 @ 7:30 am in Family Stuff | No Comments »

I’ll join Toni in listing some items I have for sale. Let me know if you’d like some item by cutting & pasting the item description into an email, your address too so I can package it up for you. I can take non-cc paypal. At […]