Today is my 36th birthday! Yeah! For those who are saying, “why advertise your age?”, you will find out soon enough. In honor of my 36th birthday, I will attempt an list of 36 things about me and observations I would like to make. 1. I am not ashamed of my age or fear growing a year older. I have always looked forward to aging because my life has gotten better every year older I have become! 2. I have…
Since my mind has been going in many different directions again lately and is losing focus rapidly, I will attempt to refocus here and torture you all with it too. #1 Kids and injuries go together. Right? No? We have a 50% injury rate among kids right now with a pulled groin muscle and a broken arm. The other 50% knows they should not get injured right now. Mama may end up doing something crazy like order huge rolls of…
Last night, after a majority of my kids went to bed, I tried to watch the debates. I couldn’t watch much of it because I thought it was a joke. I do apologize if you thought differently and it’s okay if you do think differently. I just wanted a straight answer out of both candidates, not have the moderator think they were a reporter, and honestly have a debate. I thought one was doing better than the other, but the…
Does anyone else find it easier to clean someone else’s home instead of their own? I cleaned Rob’s last weekend as a thank you for changing car brakes on Shali’s car and because it was his birthday weekend. The thought of cleaning my own house in that manner just doesn’t do much for me, but it needs a major fall-cleaning. Maybe because I know my house will not stay that way after it is clean. Rob’s house will stay clean…
I might actually have a weekend at home this weekend. Or so I thought until I looked at the schedule! My two oldest girls are playing in a volleyball tournament in Belmond Saturday and are watching/trying out for the Iowa All-State Dance Team on Sunday in Ames. And I will be at both. Admittedly, I am gone some weekends by my own decision. As a single parent, some time to myself helps to clear my head once in a while…
These last few weeks have been crazy, slightly emotional, and full of firsts/lasts. I find it very hard to believe that my oldest daughter is a senior in high school already. Time really does fly and I look at the wonderfully made, beautifully mature young woman that she has become with awe. She is experiencing a lot of lasts with a few firsts: last first day of regular school, last season of high school volleyball, etc. As her mother, I…