It’s hot upstairs. I’m going to the cool basement and decorate some boxes for Project Linus.

Doug got permission for a box to be at Jo Anne’s Fabric and Crafts. He always comes through for me. I am so lucky to be married to him.

Still on a high from the permission to leave a donation box at Gina’s Bernina Sewing Center, I have started the process of e-mailing all the people who I’ve ever spoken to at our local newspaper. I hope that one of them will decide we are worthy of a small blurb in the paper. Time […]

Alice, Doug and I are STILL the only ones working on the zoo. I can’t even get the other people to contribute ideas via e-mail. My hero Doug has rescued me yet again. He just got a retailer to agree to a drop-off box. Now I need to talk a reporter into doing an article. […]

Had a quick trip to a store that Amy has pretty much outgrown (sniff). Doug has left to take Tommy to STAR and I need to load the crowd up and go get Sarah from 4-H. When we get back I need to get things prepared for Saturday’s troop meeting and try to get anarticle […]

Doug spent yesterday afternoon editing some old pictures. Today he’s a plumber. He is definitely a man of many talents.

Dark is the tastiest chocolate. White isn’t really a chocolate at all so toss that one out of consideration altogether.

Dark chocolate, milk chocolate or white chocolate?

Not the best day but not the worst either. I could and should keep working but I’m too close to the edge of sanity to push it any further. Time to go find a movie to watch. Tomorrow I need to go get the circus tickets.

After Amy removed her nap clothes and diaper I asked her to sit on her little potty. She did and almost immediately I heard the quietest little tinkle. I clapped and praised her and called Doug upstairs to participate in the celebration. Doug interpreted my call as a plea for help with Tommy who was […]