I had to get really creative, or at least desperate, with what was packed this morning in my kids’ lunches. Without bread, the sandwiches would be a bit, well, naked. You see, last night we never did get to the grocery store, so we are out of basics, such as bread, milk and dark chocolate. Yikes. Okay, so the dark chocolate was for me, but we do normally incorporate bread and milk somewhere in meals for our children. Typically, I am an uber-planner, well, an uber-planner wanna be. I haven’t yet obtained my certificate or badge, and the phrase “let … Continue reading →

That is one of my favorite descriptions of what happened on Saturday night for us. I wasn’t clever enough to think of it myself, but I am shamelessly grabbing the line for my blog post title, since it perfectly sums up recent events. As I’ve hinted at here and there, our home life got turned upside down when my ten-year-old got a significant part in the local high school musical, Les Mis, which is set at the French Revolution. There were a lot of late night rehearsals, working around the schedules of everyone else in the family, giving up recess … Continue reading →

Whoops, I just wound up throwing out unopened food that I forgot about, wasting money. Don’t you hate it when that happens? Usually, we are pretty good in this house about cleaning out the fridge and using up items before they expire or go bad. Most Americans throw out about 25 percent of the food that they buy. That is a huge percentage, and I’ve always strived to not be part of that statistic. Our household budget is tight as it is, and the price of food is going higher and higher every moment, it seems, so why waste any … Continue reading →

We have an unofficial saying in our home, “If life gets overwhelming, just add something else to the mix.” Okay, so this really isn’t our saying, but it should be, since that is what we usually wind up doing! The last few weeks have been very busy. In addition to our normal activities, one of my children is called to rehearsal for a musical four to six days each week. Work has picked up a little bit for me as well as some new responsibilities at church. Needless to say, the house and car look like they have both been … Continue reading →

Every time I walk through the dining room, there it is, my big oops. Poked into the corner of the room, next to one of the food pantries is a whitish-grayish triangle, large enough to fit in a couple of small kid feet. Yup, I ruined a part of the dining room floor. It happened the way these thing usually happen, I was trying to multitask past my allotted multitask amount, I had just a few more minutes to go before I had to start making dinner, and then my youngest hurt himself and needed attention. I was trying to … Continue reading →

If you are a mom and doubt whether what you do makes a difference in your family life, just decide to catch a cold or a stomach flu or something like that. You don’t have to go very far to get your choice of germs. Your local playground will do. Or, you can do as I did. Have your child lick the end of the cart at Target and then when she comes down with something, have her cough in your face several times just to make sure that the germs get a chance to take hold in your body. … Continue reading →