I don’t know a single parent in Washington state who is pro WASL, the extremely controversial standardized test the state schools superintendent Terry Bergeson has been inflicting upon our poor kids and teachers for a number of years now. The teachers I know are against it too.
Well it looks like we’ll finally get rid of [...]

Stupid JCPenney. So we got the curtain. And it’s freakin’ YELLOW. Those who know me know how that’s going over right now. I freakin’ HATE HATE HATE yellow.
I ordered this from a picture online and in their catalog. It’s off-white on my screen. Not LEMON yellow. The description said “creamy vanilla”. And while some [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve done a Bullet Sunday and there’s so much random stuff going on I figured it was fitting to do one today.

Last weekend the sun was shining, it was close to 80 degrees outside and we had a BBQ. This weekend we’re taking pictures of the snow that fell. SNOW. [...]

At some point this weekend we have to go to JCPenney and get the control tag / anti-theft device (whatever it is called) removed from the pants we purchased for Casey a couple weeks ago. It is the kind that has ink in it so we can’t even attempt to get it off ourselves. Ya [...]

This has been an incredibly stressful week. I wish it was normal every day stress that life can bring, but it wasn’t. Nothing about this week’s stress was normal. It’s been an emotional and at times heart-wrenching week. And I can’t go into any of it here because some of it involved family members who [...]

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Since today is the first day of Spring, here is thirteen things I love and hate about Spring:

Love: Flowers. Who doesn’t love flowers?
Hate: Flowers. I’d like to know who came up with the idea that flowers should make you sneeze? I ache for poor Jack this time of year.
Love: The [...]

I haven’t done a TT13 in a while so I figured it was time to do one. I wish it could be more positive, but alas, I’ve had a rough couple weeks and I just need to get a few things off my chest. Here’s thirteen things that really annoy me:
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