but it did chew me up for a while!  Or at least that is how I’m feeling this week.  The week between Christmas and New Years is just a useless week.  However, it is my busiest week of the whole month.  I have a stack of work that needs to be done by the first, [...]

I hope you all have a very wonderful and blessed Christmas!  We’re leaving to visit my family today.  I’m so excited to see everyone!

My apologies for being MIA all week.  Surprisingly enough, it has nothing to do with being busy with the holidays.  I wish that had been the case.  Wednesday morning I woke up and I had lost all sense of balance and coordination.  Seriously.  I was so dizzy and disoriented that I could do nothing but [...]

I really wish it would snow!  Wait, did I just say that?  Can you tell that I’ve lived in the north all my life?  We had a nice dose of snow earlier this month but it has all melted this last week.  The trusty meteorologists are saying calling for non-snowy weather for this next week [...]

What is it about Christmas time that causes you to dig up all those old memories of Christmas past?  Christmases with family, Christmases with friends, white Christmases, very green Christmases, superb Christmases, and even disappointing Christmases.  But the Christmas memory that always seem to come to the forefront of my mind is from when I [...]

Abbi was watching Curious George yesterday afternoon while she was playing.  Well, she really doesn’t sit and watch tv, she merely glances up at it when she decides to take a 10 second break from running around the house.  I think I catch more of the cartoons than she does.  In the late afternoon it [...]

While Tim and I were dating (years and years ago) we read “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus” together.  It really is a great book that I would highly recommend for any couple.  We both could just resonate with the points the author would make and with the examples he would give.  I [...]

Little Miss Abigail has decided that she is just too old for two naps a day now.  This week she has decided that she’s good with just one nap.  Well sweetheart, mommy is not good with you taking just one nap each day.  Don’t get me wrong, she has not been cranky or whiney during [...]

The winter weather started early Friday morning as freezing rain closed down all of the schools and cancelled most events (except my dear friend Tara’s all night lock-in — Sorry T!).  It quickly turned into snow and made for a very pretty winter scene.  The snow started up again today and is supposed to continue [...]

My baby is 1 year old today….that’s 12 months…52 weeks…365 days!  I know it’s very cliche, but this year has gone by so fast.  I don’t necessarily want to pause time, but I would really, REALLY like to put it on slow motion for a while.  I have loved each stage Abbi has gone through, [...]