Chocolate is derived from cocoa beans. Bean = vegetable. Sugar is derived from either sugar cane or sugar BEETS. Both of them are plants, in the vegetable category. Thus, chocolate is a vegetable. To go one step further, chocolate candy bars also contain milk, which is dairy. So candy bars are a health food. Chocolate-covered […]

Friday is a National Day of Mourning except in TN where we’ll just have one minute of mourning. Work to do here, no time for foolishness.

Tommy has spent the day annoying his brother and sisters. Doug got excited about work but it got cancelled. I feel like a giant wishbone being pulled on by my parents and children. “I got the biggest piece.” I need an hour alone to clear my head. My brain feels like mush.

Doug and I had planned which chores we’d work on this weekend (including finally fixing Tommy’s scooter) but now our plans are up in the air. My father is TELLING us what we’re going to do this weekend and even though I keep saying no he acts like I’m not even speaking. Just goes right […]

I have nothing to blog today. This day is completely beige. No color, no personality, no nothing. Neither good nor bad. Just a generic day like any other.

Went to visit my grandmother. She was almost chatty even though she didn’t make much sense. When she just had a “little Alzheimers” she had some personality quirks that were similar to Tommy’s. I wondered if there is a brain connection, like maybe the same part of the brain is very fragile and easily re-wired […]

It’s still a work in progress, but I got the rough draft of my logo onto the blog. What do you think? This family is collecting postcards from around the world. Maybe you can help them out? I was planning on dropping the children at VBS and doing some grocery shopping while they were there. […]

Tennessee has a new child restraint law going into effect on July 1st. It means that we will have to go buy a booster seat for our 8-year-old child to use for one year. This child has been out of the booster seat for two years. I could understand the law effecting children who have […]

Doug downloaded the pictures from the troop’s visit to Libby Lu. I have mixed feelings about girls playing dress-up when they look like little “professionals”.

Doug published his goals for the week so I guess I should follow his lead. This week I will: clean the children’s rooms several times a day; pick up and put away the same toys over and over; wash, dry, fold and put away laundry daily; change diapers and wipe noses; load and unload the […]