Entries Tagged as ‘Daily Random’

January 13, 2009

Learning to live on less

Like most other Americans we’re feeling the economic crisis.  We’re looking at a three year deadline for Steven’s Air Force retirement (a possibility also exists that he’ll stay in past 20 years).  We would like to be debt free before he retires for a lot of reasons but one of the main ones is that [...]

January 11, 2009

Rambling, ponderous, convoluted rabbit trails

 
I know that’s a picture you guys have seen before, I haven’t had a chance to pick up my camera in the last day or two so I’m cheating with an old shot.  The girls were asked to choose four items outside to draw and try to identify.  These were her choices.  
Homeschooling is fun [...]

January 9, 2009

Jammies at 11am

I was exhausted when I fell into bed last night.  Three nights in a row of going to sleep after midnight and getting up by 6:30 or 7:00 had kicked my butt.  Sleepy doesn’t even begin to cover it.  I crawled in bed, snuggled with The Boy and proceeded to follow the nightly routine.  Turn [...]

January 5, 2009

Random on a Monday

The first thing I thought when I opened my eyes this morning was holy crap!  My alarm didn’t go off and someone is vacuuming at 7am!  My alarm was set for 6am but apparently never went off.  I woke to the strange sounds of a broken ceramic plate being jostled inside a paper grocery bag.  Someone [...]

December 29, 2008

Thoughtless

I’m not brimming with ideas this morning so I cheated and used a meme for filler today.  I’m working on a post about “The Crazy” so it’ll be a doozy when it’s ready.  In the mean time, bear with me.
randomness…feed your mind and your blog 
 Name 3 of each:
-Pet Peeves-

Interrupting – Holy cow!  This drives me [...]

December 19, 2008

Thru the lens

Yesterday Lizzy helped me make some Christmas cookies.  I’m standing there, rolling the dough for the shortbread cookies into small balls for her to press with a sugar coated fork.  I hand her the fork and explain the process so she can work on the cookies at the other end of the pan.  She starts [...]