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I am not a throw away girl [day 7]

I wrote this a few days ago.  It goes to the tune of Madonna’s song Material Girl.  I think I might need to do a music video with it.  :) Not a Throw-Away Girl Some stores discount, some stores ship stuff I think they’re okay If they don’t give me...

unplugged toys

I was hoping to have more time to post some non-electronic toys from my childhood and compare them with what my kids will have this week.  I ran out of time, but here’s a few photos of some toys I had.  I’ll post what my kids played with when we return....

I’m packing [day 339]

No, I don’t have a gun.  I mean packing for a short trip.  One full day to be exact.  Why do I always feel like I need so much stuff?  A while back, I always had the philosophy that if I forget something, I’ll just buy it.  Rarely did I ever have to take...

have your cake and eat it too.

In efforts to save money for our church and still have a nice celebration for our staff’s birthdays, Lori, our director of getting stuff done and keeping everyone organized, said she would make birthday cakes.  She then proceeded to ask everyone on staff what...

what can you do with a box of crayons?

Grab a box of crayons.  What?  You don’t have a box of crayons?  Then get some at a restaurant or dig through your kids stuff.  You know they’re always digging through yours. I learned recently that Peter Max started his career with a trunk full of...

the great pumpkin

They say the older women get, the bigger their underwear get.  I’m not sure who ‘they’ is, but I’m quite sure ‘they’ spent too much time at grandma’s house or looking at the Sears catalog. So what’s my obsession with...

proverbs

I have this ritual… every time I go to a chinese place to eat, I get two fortune cookies.  One before my meal and one for the road.  So on this day, my cookie was empty.  No fortune.  I’ve been collecting these little pieces of paper that start a thought...

what do you mean they stick to popcorn?

Yeah, I need to make a t-shirt out of that one!  So.  I had some friends over and we threw all these little promotional men thingies with sticky heads all over the house.  It was a blast!  When you throw them at the wall, they stick but eventually fall off.  So who...