Our FIRST First Day of School!

It’s official ~ we have school age kids! This morning, we dropped both Kariss and Britton off at Jupiter Montessori Academy. They’ll both be there 3 mornings a week (M-W-F) though Britton will be there only until noon and Kariss will stay until 1:30. So...

5th Anniversary

For someone who’s previously considered 3 months a long-term relationship, I find it hard to believe I’ve been married to my best friend for five years today. Although we knew after one week that we were supposed to get married, I never imagined the past...

birthday cake

so tomorrow is Kariss’ 4th birthday. Once again, I’ve attempted to make a cake myself. Since we’re having her party at Johnny Rockets, I thought I would do a simple chocolate round cake and fashion it into a record. Instead, it is now 12:30am and...

Why does it cost so much to eat healthy?

I just spent $1.77 on lunch for myself and my kids…so why am I not on a bargain buzz right now? Because we ate at McDonalds! It’s hard to resist their Wednesday/Sunday summer special, especially when I also had coupons for free fries and a drink, but then...

$70 for gas? Are you kidding me?

I’m not that old, yet I’m starting to sound like my father…”I remember when I could fill up my car with a tank of gas for under $10″ and that’s when I was in college! So when I hit empty tonight and went to fill up our reliable,...

Someone should tell me these things!

So I return home this afternoon from a typical visit to the library (except that we rented 15 CD’s instead of Wiggles DVD’s in our continuing attempt to keep the tv off this week) only to find that I’m missing an earing, have a big hole in the back...