Tyler, TX blogger - parenting, cooking, DIY-ing, crafting, sports, and life with three boys!
When my dear husband and I were on our honeymoon in Playa del Carmen, he picked up this .... thingamajig. He thought he'd love to keep his keys and stuff in it. Okay, good idea! But wow. This thing is annoying. (I love you honey!) Anytime he comes home, leaves, or gets his keys to get into the car....this loud noise echoes through the house. The good news: I always know when he's going somewhere and he'll never be able to sneak out. View Post
The other day, I was blog surfing and I came upon this link: "Deal"icious Mom: Ocean In A Bottle Craft. How awesome! Captain Fussybuckets has been asking to go to the beach, so I thought that this would be the perfect Mommy-Son while Baby D is sleeping craft! I saved a sports drink bottle, found some Baby Oil in the cabinet, and we went in search of shells and cool rocks outside. I knew that there were two snail shells in the front garden, View Post
The browser window to remind me to order new checks has been open on my laptop for three days. I opened it to start the process of ordering checks and somehow got sidetracked (with this blog maybe??) We moved well over a month ago now and we need new checks. But wait.....the checks that we are using are from ... wait for it....the address of the house we lived in BEFORE moving to Cherokee! We haven't lived there since January of 2010!! View Post
It has been six months since we lost a dear friend and boss, Danny Duggan. We were working at Cherokee Home For Children in Cherokee, Texas as relief houseparents. Danny suffered a brain injury while playing basketball alongside his friends, coworkers, kids living at the home, and the visiting Aggies for Christ volunteers. It was a horrible shock that rocked all of us at the home, and thousands of others who knew and loved Danny. After View Post
There has been a common theme in our lives for the past few weeks. You just NEVER know. I'm not talking about with our kids, but that is obvious.... I'm talking with everyone we come in contact with. I'm trying my hardest to remember this always. You can't read people like books. You just don't KNOW what's going on until they tell you. You know the lady that wouldn't move her basket or acknowledge my presence when I said "excuse me" View Post
10 Reasons Why I Love Nick Jr. 10. There are songs and fun games instead of annoying toy and food commercials that leave my 2 year old saying "I want that!" 9. Diversity. They've got "Little Bill," "Ni Hao, Kai-Lan," "Dora the Explorer," and "Go, Diego, Go!" (although I'd prefer them to be a little MORE diverse...but whatever.) 8. High quality shows - the graphics, creativity, and themes about everyday life are good. I View Post
Long time no post! Well, real post anyway. This summer cold/allergies/sick as a dog thing that Baby D and I have been dealing with is intense. I'm thinking it's a cold. The boys and I went "swimming" in the kiddie pool in our backyard on Friday and that night, I was feeling the beginnings of the sickness with a sore throat. My family came in for the weekend and the next morning, my dad was sick, too. Baby D had a stuffy nose and couldn't View Post
We've had a fun weekend with some of my (Mommy's) family! Lots of good eating, family fun time, and more fighting and fussing than we would've liked! :o) It was a good weekend, despite the colds that three, possibly more of us have! The boys got a new swing set from Grammy & Grampy (a very early birthday present, since a swing set in the winter doesn't seem as awesome as a swing set in the summer!) Thanks to Grampy, Uncle E-Diddy, and View Post
I think I have e-mail OCD. I can somehow catalog e-mails and then mentally check them off when they're responded to. I still remember an e-mail I sent to a dear friend about three years ago that was never responded to. property of careervanity.com I know, this is a very silly post, but bear with me. What are the rules of e-mail? If an e-mail is not responded to in a few days, do you call and say "did you get my View Post
Captain Fussybuckets is learning about forgiveness. He doesn't really understand the concept, but he knows how to say "I forgive you." He's learning that even Mommy & Daddy make mistakes and when they do, it's a good thing for him to forgive us. This morning, I (Mommy) was watering my plants and I accidentally tripped him with the water hose. OOPS! I felt horrible, he got hurt, he cried, Daddy got him a band-aid, but in the end, he told View Post
