Before bed last night, Cody complained of a stomach ache. We figured too much good food. At 4:30 AM, Casey woke us up to tell us he wasn’t feeling well which was shortly followed by a race to the bathroom where he threw up. Shortly after that Jack was racing to the bathroom. The two [...]

This is going to have to be a short post because I’m on dial up right now and.. I just can’t do dial up. It took like five minutes just to get to this post page. The essay I promised for today will have to wait till tomorrow.
For those who don’t know, Cathy is [...]

We’re here at Grandma’s house and managed to leech a semi-strong Internet connection off the neighbors so I’m able to check in real quick and get a post up. (And still meet my NaBloPoMo goal of a post a day.) I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to post while here in The Dalles, [...]

Today’s been a crazy day so far. I worked today then as soon as I got off work had to race through the shower then race to a baby shower for one of Jack’s co-workers. (They are adopting a baby from Guatemala and just found out they are approved and get their baby in [...]

We sold our house after it being on the market for… four whole days. We didn’t even have time to do staging or anything, it sold so fast. When this happened we were ecstatic but also wondering if we priced it too low, especially since we sold it for only $900 less than the asking [...]

As I begin to write this post, Cody is doing his homework from his perch at the breakfast bar in the kitchen. He just hollered to me “Mom, it smells nasty in here. That’s because I farted. And it’s really really nasty. You do NOT want to come in here.” I hollered back, “thanks for [...]

The other day I mentioned we go over the river and through the woods to our Grandma’s house for Thanksgiving. You know the song, right? It’s a fun little joke in our family because in order to get to Jack’s grandmother’s house, we have to cross the Columbia River, then drive through the Columbia Gorge [...]