Lately I’ve been trying to ‘go green’ on some things around our house. We always recycle our cans, plastics, etc (and we have to pay for it whether we use the recycle bins provided by our garbage company whether we use them or not so we might as well use them.) But it constantly bothers [...]

I love my new computer. I never came back to post last weekend about it. I meant to but I was too busy playing with the fastness and uberness that is this computer. Jack beat me to it anyway. His version of how this all went together is mostly accurate. Except the part about my [...]

I think margarine is disgusting and I will only eat and use real butter in cooking. (I’m pretty sure margarine is evil for diabetics too. At least that’s my excuse if anyone offers me that disgusting crap.) So I picked up a clear glass butter dish a while back. It attracted me because It looked [...]

…and boy am I tired. Thanks to the help of our kids, Ralph, and Denise, we got our tree up, our lights up, and the inside of the house mostly decorated. It was fun figuring out how to do the lights in our new house… but we got it done and dare I say it, [...]

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 [...]

Warning for those with sensitive eyes: This post contains a naughty word or two.
This is also a two part post. Part II will follow later today or tomorrow.
Here I was minding my own business balancing my checking account when my dogs started barking and whining at the front window. A few seconds later there was [...]

I can fold a shirt like a ninja thanks to the tips I saw posted on Rockstar Mommy. I watched the video a few times then amazed my family. Then I showed them my super leet technique of folding a chip bag airtight without a chip clip. They thought I was the coolest. *flex*
I’m sure [...]