I find myself in a bit of a predicament in the shopping arena for my oldest son. He wants a new skateboard. And I have to agree with him, the one he has isn’t of very good quality. Despite hanging out with lots of skateboarders most of my life, having ridden a [...]

**edit to add ~ it seems to be all fixed now! The internet ghosts are no longer angry with me**
I’m not sure what is causing our technical difficulty when it comes to the comments section. The internet seems to have gotten hungry and gobbled it up. They aren’t disabled and I didn’t [...]

I mentioned we are visiting family this week. My mom lives in what was my grandparents house now. One of the updates she has made was putting in a nice new stainless steel refrigerator. Which, by the way is funny. You always see them in the commercials with the alphabet magnets [...]

We’re visiting family out of town this week and so far all we’ve had is rain. Washed our plans for cooking out on the grill right down the drain. And the kids didn’t bring a lot of inside stuff to play with because they’d normally be out playing with the dogs in the [...]

I know a lot of my readers know my distaste for the word “housewife” ~ don’t call me a housewife if you value your teeth. It just turns my stomach and raises my blood pressure. Eve at Confessions of a Housewife posted this really great article today with her thoughts after reading [...]

It’s not easy to keep coming up with healthy and fun lunch ideas. And not just for the kids, but for the grown ups too!  Many adults are turning back to the brown bag lunches and leftovers in a container in an effort to improve their health.  It makes it so much easier to avoid [...]

There are many uncomfortable things all women face as they get older and I think perhaps most women would say the most uncomfortable is menopause. Not only do women going through menopause experience annoying and painful physical and emotional symptoms, they’re also at a much higher risk of developing dangerous problems such as osteoporosis [...]