My Life

Overscheduled

I am a compulsive joiner. It’s part of my DNA. My joining began in first grade, when I joined the Girl Scouts. I tried to join my sister, too, but they wouldn’t let her in. She was too little. In third grade, we joined cheerleading. We wore sweatshirts in September in Virginia. I remember that [...]

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11 Things That Happen As You Get Older

I was born old. Sometime around my twenty-first birthday, my brother-in-law told me he was sure he misunderstood. Surely, I was turning sixty-one, he said. I think that had something to do with my Louis Armstrong CD, but I’m not 100% sure. My tastes have always leaned more towards Old Grandma’s than to those of [...]

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Our Week in Pictures

What happened when I tried to lay out a pattern in the living room: I’m rethinking that I cut it out at all since I’m now in the middle of this iHeartOmron challenge. I haven’t sewn it yet; I may have to make some adjustments to my pattern after I lose weight. I took the [...]

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My Health Experiment (Or How I Did Some Dumb Things)

What I’m about to tell you is dumb. Seriously. If I were reading this about someone else, I would think, “How could she be so dumb?” You’ll see. A little over a month ago, I stopped eating gluten to see if it would help with my chronic hand pain. At that time, I was also [...]

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12 Most Popular Posts of 2012

I don’t look at my blog’s stats as a matter of principle. I am too busy to hang on how many throngs of people are reading and from where. I used to check all the time, but I have a lot more to do now and a lot less time to play around online. I [...]

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Dropped Naps

Allie stopped taking naps last month. I think it was her way of celebrating her second birthday. She’s got her own ideas about this world, that little person. I think Grace and I have done school about three times in the last three weeks, thanks in large part to the insane active and affectionate two-year-old [...]

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Happy New Year! {a video from Gracie}

I overstayed my vacation. Sorry about that. It’s not that I don’t have things to write about. I have about fifteen blog posts working. I just haven’t gotten around to publishing any of them. I have a bunch of recipes coming up. Broccoli, eggs, meatloaf, even a gluten-free chocolate cake. Good stuff! In the meantime, [...]

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Why I’m Going Gluten Free

I have mentioned a time or two before that I had chronic pain over the summer. I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in August, but the (malaria) medicine my doctor prescribed for it hasn’t helped. At all. I also started taking prednisone in August, and that has worked wonders. It’s practically a miracle drug, erasing [...]

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Working Utopia

I homeschool, mother, and do housework in the daytime while Joe works. Joe fathers, cooks, and does housework in the evenings while I work. From a chair in the living room. It’s crazy and hectic. Most of the time, I love working from home, but it has a whole slew of challenges. My job – [...]

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Substance Over Style – Our New Old Christmas Tree

When I was a young, single girl, I decorated a fabulous Christmas tree. My ornaments matched – only blue, silver, and white. The lights were blue, and the garlands were blue. My decorations matched. I even had a blue poinsettia once. My stylish Christmas tree adorned the front window of my clean and tidy house (ignore the [...]

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