Now, really. Are you surprised we have iphones? If you are at all familiar with my husband, Pinwheels, you will know he is technologically savvy. On top of that he is an Apple/Macintosh fanatic. Put those two together and we were bound to get the new iphone. Since we knew deployment was looming in the [...]
We had a great summer, a busy summer, but a great one.
June: We went a little crazy and bought a house. We signed the contract and 15 hours later we went on vacation. We spent nearly a week with Pinhweels’ side of the family including two days on a lake in a houseboat. We had [...]
I have been keeping Pinwheels to myself. He arrived home safely almost a month ago now and I have been mean and not shared his return with you. He arrived home a day late and rested so we had a great time taking him to lunch. We spent a few days just being a family [...]
Earlier this week an Amber Alert went out for a 13 year-old boy who disappeared soon after he got off the school bus.
There were some reports of a vehicle so descriptions of it went out also. Fast forward to yesterday, Friday the 12th, where police went to a home on an unrelated warrant, saw the [...]
If you live outside of the pink “bean” consider yourself blessed. For those of us who live inside the bean…here we go again.
Peanut turned 5 today. He is cute, funny, sweet, adorable, and not always agreeable or obedient but boy do I love him.
This morning I woke up to two kids or monkeys, as I like to call them, in my bed. They started to talk and whisper to each other before the alarm went off. That’s [...]
I think it’s about time I started signing my Christmas cards, don’t you? I have quite a few I’d like to send out but I’m not expecting many myself this year? Why, you ask? Because I was a complete goof when I moved here and completely forgot to send change of address cards to my [...]
Or so it seems anyway. Of course, there is the usual shopping for Christmas gifts which is actually moving at a smooth pace. It would just be nice if I still had more than 10 days to finish.
And then there is the shopping where if you don’t buy some clothes you will be [...]
I think there’s so much sleet and ice that the trees are starting to crack, literally, under the pressure. Twice now I’ve heard loud cracks of noise out in the darkness. It wasn’t until the second time that I realized it is probably tree branches breaking under the weight of the constant falling [...]
It is nasty outside. We’ve had sleeting rain for most of the day here in the St. Louis area and it’s supposed to keep going for most of the night. I do believe it is to turn into snow at some point but until then it is dangerous to be outside. The weather channel said [...]
Pinwheels has hit the halfway mark of his deployment. Less than 70 days to go.
Yay!
Sorry for the nonexistent posting. You know it’s bad when your deployed spouse is blogging intermittently and it’s more blogging than you do. So, I will try to do better.
The last 2 weeks we have been sick. The kids got sick first and then I got sick. Well, I started to [...]
Wooohooo!
It’s good to be home!
I’m looking at a mail order catalog. I have found long plaid skirt, short sleeve sweater, and matching blazer I am kind of interested in. The makes no sense part? You can get the skirt and the blazer in petite but not the sweater. I understand buying the 3 pieces separately. [...]
Peanut: Nona, can I have goat milk?
And then? He drank it. lol Who knew?
The high yesterday was 65 degrees. That’s not too bad until you think of the low for the day. I think it was in the 40’s. Brrr.
According to Peanut, “If you don’t eat you will shrink into a skeleton.”
True. It just takes a very long time. I just found out he heard it on a video he was watching. I thought he had come up with it on his own. It’s still cute.
Michael’s the store, that is. Flash attended a birthday party today and it was held at Michael’s. I was surprised but realized it was a pretty neat idea. They made a craft and had cake. They made a gumball machine look-alike. The kids painted a ceramic flower pot including a [...]
I received a phone call from Pinwheels at lunchtime today. He has made it safely to his final destination. He arrived yesterday to find his boss (and friend) waiting for him. He already had a tent assigned where he sleeps and the food at the chow hall is very good. He [...]
Pinwheels left for his deployment on Monday morning. The kids enjoyed the ride on the train to the airport and they had fun looking at the airplanes but they don’t understand the complexity or dangers or what their dad is going to do. They just know he’s going to the desert to go [...]
Well, I survived my cold last week just in time to finish cleaning up the house for our big weekend. Last Saturday we had a We wish you well party for Pinwheels and on Sunday we had a small family reunion lunch and Bocci ball playing. On Monday most of our family returned home. My [...]
Fighting a cold.
No energy.
Be back soon.
Besides getting ready for Pinwheels’ deployment I have been quite the busy crafter. I’ve been able to keep the house and my computer/sewing room fairly picked so I can do some projects without much guilt.
I have been wanting to make each of my kids a bed quilt. When my mother-in-law came in July [...]
One of the things I love about summer, and one of the things I am grateful to be back in the states for is, fresh produce. And it doesn’t hurt to have your parents only 12 minutes away with a garden full of goodies to share. In fact, thanks to my dad my lunch today [...]
We are having a busy, busy summer. We have visited and have been visited by family many times since we arrived in March. At first it was because we hadn’t seen most of them in nearly 2 years. And then it was so we could spend extra time with family before September. [...]
Last night a storm came through St. Louis, Missouri, and the surrounding areas leaving 500,000 people without electricity. This is problematic enough. However, the heat index for our area today is 107F. They’re predicting problems with the power for several days and with the temperature so high the authorities are quite concerned. I think the [...]
Volvo has teamed up with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Volvo has decorated a XC90 with the skull and crossbones from the movie. They’ve placed it in a container and have buried it somewhere in the world. Whoever finds it gets to keep it. All you have to do is go to a [...]
I forgot to tell you we’re on vacation. We’re visiting Pinwheels’ parents in the lovely Kentucky. The weather is beautiful this week and we’re all having a blast.
Ta!
I hate it when you buy the same thing for several years and then the company quits making it, for whatever reasons. It has happened many times but the latest is with my shoes. I have been buying Easy Spirit walking shoes for 3 or 4 years; the same size, the same style. I found [...]
Go to bed, crazy head!