Abbi got her first glimpse of Santa Clause on Saturday night when we went downtown for the Holiday Open House.  The cobblestone street was lined with luminaries and carolers were scattered about.  It was a nice little kick-off to the holiday season.  Even though the weather was pretty mild, we bundled Abbi up in her [...]

A year ago today I was lying in a hospital room awaiting the arrival of my Abbi.  I was thinking about it yesterday because a year ago yesterday is when my water actually broke — I was on my way to a work meeting when I thought I had peed my pants getting into my [...]

Well, in my last post I was so busy climbing up on my soap box that I forgot to mention Thanksgiving weekend.  We had a good time visiting my parents, although it was pretty short. We had to come back home on Friday because Tim had rehearsals Saturday and Sunday. The good:  We had a [...]

Let the Hallelujah chorus ring out — the 15th Street house has sold!  This has been a long time coming or at least a year.  I could go into how the first punk backed out after we bent over backwards for him or how the mortgage company has continually drug their feet, but I think [...]

Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend have written a series of books on boundaries over the past fifteen years.  They focus on setting boundaries in our life, in our family, at work, while dating, in our marriage, with our kids, etc.  Millions of copies have been sold and I would highly suggest picking one up [...]

I avoided blogging about this whole thing because I feel that I have a tendency to write about celebrities and tv A LOT. However, my morning was completely jolted when I was watching Good Morning America and they played a clip from The View where Rosie O’Donnell opened her big mouth and utter crap came [...]

Well, looks like OJ will not be making his millions and millions of dollars off of the murder of his ex-wife and her friend.  Apparently Fox is pulling the interview and the book deal.  Really, it actually surprises me.  I thought that Fox would eat up all of this publicity and controversy and hope for [...]

As ridiculous as this sounds, I vowed while I was pregnant that I would never take my child to the play are in the malls or any other “mass chaos” setting for kids.  It’s not that I’m worried about the germs or that she would get hurt.  I was just more annoyed by the kids [...]

In the small Northern Michigan town where I grew up, today was a very anticipated day.  As a matter of fact, we were given the day off from school and nearly half of the businesses closed their doors for the day.  And what is so special about today?  Well, nothing else but Opening Day of [...]

Last night the husband had to work so I was home with Abbi for the night.  She was pretty tired so she went to bed promptly at 7pm.  That meant a night of TV indulgence!  I grabbed a small piece of chocolate pie and settled myself in for a night in front of the TV.  [...]