Driving in the car: “<big sigh>…..so……when’s Mackenzie going to get boobs?”
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Coming home from the bowling alley, driving past the shopette: “Hey, why dont we stop off and get a bottle of wine?”
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Going to the park today:
N: Where is Ethan?
me: Ethan is moving away, he isn’t going to play with us at the park anymore
N: When [...]

Filed under: McSassy, Nate the Great

This morning PC asked me how I even got started with this care package swap. Well, thats kind of a long story, so I won’t bore you with that but Swistle seems to be the President of care packages (I sort of preferred the term Swistmas package she used at Christmas time).
A few weeks ago [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized

Instead of writing about my fun care package from Swistle, I got to take care of double-ear-infectioned Nathan AND do laundry. Lots.
Also, I loved the video that Katie had on her blog and it totally reminded me of earlier today when I took Nathan to go get a smoothie. For those of you who are [...]

Filed under: its not just good-its just good enough

1) The weather report says its supposed to be a cloudy rainy day…and there is decidedly more sun than rain at the moment.
2) Going strawberry picking next week on Nathan’s first school field trip.
3) A Swistle! Care! Package! (more on that later)
4) Running….by myself
5) Passionfruit Papaya tea….iced.>

Filed under: Grace in Small Things

Nathan had a rough afternoon/evening. It was started by his two neighborhood pals departing for gymnastics and why couldn’t he goooooo? From there every little thing that didn’t go his way was a huge trauma.
After dinner I went upstairs to bathe Kiki and Nathan was going to the bathroom downstairs. I heard some discussing, Nathan [...]

Filed under: Nate the Great

1) The squealing-like-a-little-piglet laughs of a 5 month old.
2) Swapping care packages!
3) Great finds at the thrift store.
4) Ghirardelli dark chocolate with caramel squares.
5) Splashing in puddles with a 3 1/2 year old on a rainy rainy day.

Filed under: Grace in Small Things

I know, you’re thinking I never post and here I am going on a 3rd post about the dog. I promise this is the last one, and this one is really only intended for those of you who have lived here because I’m not sure anyone else can appreciate this in quite the same way. [...]

Filed under: Smile and Nod, The Great Sandino

Things around here are getting back to normal, just with less dog hair. I think we are all faring well, its been hard to adjust to the little things that had become so much a part of daily life. I left everything as it was for a day and then on day two I vacuumed, [...]

Filed under: The Great Sandino

For as casual and lighthearted as I have been about the whole Sandy issue, I had no idea that I would be so grief stricken. We put her to sleep this morning and its the most awful thing I’ve had to do in my entire life. I mean that. I can’t even write a post [...]

Filed under: The Great Sandino, This Is My Life

I have every intention of boring you with the minutiae of my everyday life with daily posts but then someone has a stage 5 blowout, someone else needs a snack, and someone else needs the mold cleaned out of their dog bowl, someone just always needs something.
The Capt. has graced us with his presence again [...]

Filed under: Military Life, This Is My Life