Today is the first day of the moving process. I charged the video camera battery last night so that we can do a little tour of the empty house. Dylan has claimed the job of camera man. I think he takes his school news crew membership a little too seriously sometimes, but [...]

Ethan gets it every year, he doesn’t even have to be near it. The wind blows and he gets poison ivy. Then I have to get rid of whatever shirt he’s wearing at the time because no amount of washing will get rid of it! If he just wears that shirt again [...]

Today is the first day of serious full on getting ready to move. Up until now we’ve been sort of weeding through things, and putting things in boxes that we knew we wouldn’t need anytime soon, like extra sweatshirts. Today’s goal …. bag up stuff to donate. Always the first step in [...]

In a few weeks we switch to our new insurance plan, and it’s a PPO instead of an HMO. I’ve never had a PPO before, so I’m not sure what to expect from things.
Anybody out there use a PPO? Everything on the company website looked good when we chose the new [...]

This was one of Dylan’s birthday gifts. He’s always liked to grow things and back in Pennsylvania he had his own little tomato plants to take care of. I wasn’t allowed to touch them, I’ve got the black thumb curse. So, when we got the chance to review the the Discovery Channel [...]