
I have a dream that a huge winter storm comes and cancels all of our appointments and games and activities and what have you for two weeks. And then I wake up and remember I live in Texas. Oh well. We’re busy, but it was 70 degrees this weekend. It’s all about the trade-offs. Dealing-with-it […]

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A heartbreaking letter from a young girl to her older self is making the rounds on the internet. The letter isn’t heartbreaking because of it’s content, but rather because the twelve-year-old girl unexpectedly died and her parents found the letter while going through her belongings. Taylor Smith sounds like a remarkable person and it’s easy […]

Round one was a rousing success, but then the season of feasting occurred. Oh sugar, you sultry minx.Yeah, I fell off the wagon hard over the holidays. But that was then; this is now. And now we’re back on day one of The 21 Day Sugar Detox (af) This time it’s a family affair: MTG […]

*This post contains affiliated links. I am bad at trees. Really bad. Like “acorn = oak, and that’s about all I know” bad. What can I say, I grew up in the desert! But I am committed to getting better because one of the benefits of homeschooling is that teacher gets to learn alongside her […]

Protecting children from abuse and neglect is a serious duty, and there is no doubt that the authorities who are charged with that duty have no easy job. But what rights do government authorities have over our children when abuse and neglect aren’t at issue? Today in my Washington Times Communities Pages column, I look […]

*This post contains affiliated links. I’ve only finished one book for my Empty Shelf Challenge thus far, which seems kind of lame, especially considering that I read all the time. Really, I do! But most of my reading is either non-book or books that probably don’t qualify for the shelf. Sometimes I’m researching for my […]

The good news is we got the gas leak fixed and the permit issued yesterday. The bad news is apparently the permit office didn’t get the permit to the gas company, or possibly they did, but it didn’t make it through the system to actually get our gas turned back on. The upside is that […]

Experts say this is the worse day of the year. I suspect some of that is due in part to the hard sugar crash people are having. It is also the Feast of Epiphany, or as I’m coming to know it, the Day of the Plumber. We were going to have a party for Epiphany, […]

Late Friday afternoon, MTG discovered a gas leak. So he called our provider who, discovering the leak is just on our side of the line, shut it off til we can get it repaired and inspected. Someone is coming out Monday at 11, which means we’re heatless and hot-waterless til at least Monday evening. Possibly […]