Learning to Relax with Yoga

If my recent posts are any indication, my life can get stressful. Very stressful. I’m a wife, a mother of 4, a stepmother of 3, and I work full time. And lets not forget I have diabetes and living with diabetes isn’t easy. Being stressed out or anxious wreaks havok on my blood sugars so [...]

Quickie post to show off my sissagirl

Last weekend Melissa got to attend another Cheer Camp her big sister assisted with. It was a one day camp where they learned a few cheers. Last night she then got to cheer with the varsity cheerleaders at the varsity high school basketball. I was impressed with how she did considering she only officially practiced [...]

Bullet Sunday #12

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 [...]

Fun in the Fall

When I was a child there was a brief time when my mother was married to my sister’s dad (my step dad) where we lived in a house that had a lot of trees in the yard. I remember spending a couple autumns at this house raking those leaves into big piles. I remember the [...]

drum roll please - announcing contest winner

If you have been following along, you know that I held a contest to be entered into a drawing to win a $25.00 Gift Card to Target. To earn an entry these questions had to be answered correctly (correct answers are in bold):
1. What year were Jack and I married?
A. 2001
B. 1998
C. 1999
D. 2000
2. My [...]