For those of you that read my Facebook Page, my Mother's Days was a tad bit crazy. It was my husband's first day off in the last 15 - 18 days & he was smoking a brisket. My daughter and I were trying to finish up a cute craft gift for my mom. And Mother Nature decided to remind us why it is important to not only have a tornado preparedness plan, but to also have a weather radio on hand as well. The past two months have been nothing but rain. We need it due to the drought, but just not all at once. Last Sunday was rounding up to be the more of the same; scattered showers. However, they had been calling for the possibility of very severe weather. It was a high enough chance that our town decided to test the tornado sirens a few days prior with no warning, causing everyone to panic. I had been keeping an eye on what the weather was doing, but it looked that everything severe was mostly south of us. Then around 5:50 - 6:00, they started tracking a storm coming our way that ...
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Christmas Time & New Year Resolutions
I love Christmas. There's lights, decorations, a live tree which can be put into the corner of my living room that somehow won't affect my sinus. There is also my birthday...wait...never mind, let's not go there (I'm old!!!). The one downside is that it's the end of the year, which brings it's own unique stress. With it being Fourth Quarter, husband is barely home since he's management at at a certain box-store. About two weeks ago, he called and said that the store had a very bad visit and that he was going to be late. At 11 pm, he said he didn't know when he was coming home. He had been there since about 8:30 that morning and hadn't had any breaks and I don't think he ate anything. He called again around 2 am, saying that he had to drive over to another store to pick something up, take it back to his store, then he might be able to come home. At some point after that, I fell asleep. I woke up at about 8:30 am, alone in bed. The lights & TV were on in the living room, ...
Bad Luck & Hot Summer Days
Well, it's currently 105 degrees here, making the days feel like they are dragging by. Sleep has been uncomfortable, so I haven't been getting much. We've had a lot going on lately and it's cause me to majorly slack off from the site as of late. Bad luck always seems to comes is threes...and we were certainly hit with the space of a few weeks. The first was the outflow pipe on the kitchen sink clogging up. I think I mentioned this at some point in the last two months, but I can't remember. Anyway, the pipe was draining really slow all of a sudden. Over the course of two and a half weeks, we went through: 2 bottles of Foaming Pipe Snake,1 bottle of commercial grade Foaming Pipe Snake, 2 small bottles of Liquid Plumber (with the plastic clog remover),1 bottle of Liquid Lighting Drain Opener,3 large bottles of Main Line Cleaner, and 2 large bottles of Liquid Plumber. Nothing worked and it got to the point that nothing was draining. I couldn't even run the dishwasher, so we ...
Vacation time!
Yay! We all made it to the beach in once piece. Unfortunately, my husband found out at the last minute he couldn't come since he has a second interview for a store manager position tomorrow. He's still on vacation, he just can't go anywhere. And even if he decided to fly in, it would only leave him about three days. So, he's doing stuff around the house. He wanted to work on stuff outside, but it has been raining nonstop since we left and it doesn't look like it will let up until the end of the week. My daughter made the trip all in one day without getting car sick. We stopped several times and she did really good. She's been having a blast and spent a good chunk of this morning running around on the beach. She's zonked out on the couch right now. The best thing has been that my grandmother came down for the week too. I haven't seen her since I got married and she's never meet my daughter. She's having a great time. ...
Make a Pledge to the Reading Rainbow Kickstarter Campaign!
While I was growing up, one of my favorite shows was Reading Rainbow. I help instill a love for reading that I still have to this day. The massive stacks of books in my bedroom and living room bookshelf is a testament to that. LeVar Burton has been working on bringing back Reading Rainbow as an app for children to use both at home and in schools. A few weeks back he started a Kickstarter Campaign and reached his goal of $1 million in less than 11 hours. Since then, he has set the goal progressively higher so that the app will be available free to as many schools as possible, and now he needs your help. It is the final two weeks, and he is trying to reach the current goal of $5 million and break the record of Most Support with 91,600 backers. If you haven't already, make a pledge now...even if it's just a dollar. Every little bit will help make a difference. Here are a few quick links to get your pledges in: Make any pledge: http://bit.ly/RR-Pledge Make a $5 pledge: ...
The Stomach Bug That Wouldn’t Die!!!
Okay, I know...it sounds like a really bad movie, but the stomach bug has been bad! my daughter got it first at the start of last week. She was fine when she went to bed, and when she woke up in the morning she started throwing up. It wasn't a lot at first. She tried to eat a little and went back to sleep for about two hours. She was fine when she got back up but after going in to use the bathroom, she started throwing up again. So, I called her doctor. We ended up having to wait until afternoon to get her in, and all they said to do was make sure she drank lotsof water and have her eat the BRAT diet for a day to two. She was mostly better by the end of the next day, so I figured that was it. Flash forward a to Sunday (25th). We finally got the kitchen pipe unclogged, my husband had made a wonderful steak dinner, and our daughter was in bed sound asleep. It was about 11:15 pm and we were getting ready to get settled into bed. My stomach had been bothering me a little so ...