Oh my gosh, y’all, I’ve just reinstated mandatory nap time and it is SO NICE. For a while now I’ve been thinking my 5 yr old needed naps during the day again. She wasn’t handling school time well and late in the day when it was time to get ready for bed she was having meltdowns. [...]

Wow, I feel like I’ve been a busy bee lately! In order to start meeting our goals for the day (and the new year) and being more responsible in some areas we slacked off on over the holidays, we had a lot to do on our plate for Monday this week. So yesterday, even though [...]

If you’ve been blogging for any length of time, you know it is NOT true that “if you blog it, they will come.” And yet, many new bloggers often expect just that. So if writing alone isn’t enough to bring in the masses, what is? What are your traffic goals for your blog? It goes without saying [...]

The first Menu Plan Monday of the whole year! Let’s see if I can make good on my new year’s “goal” of getting back to menu planning the right away. Today I only planned this week’s menu, since I don’t need to go grocery shopping yet. But at the end of this week, I’ll menu [...]

I’m not making resolutions. I’m not making promises, either. On the other hand, we’re hopefully continuously growing, learning and improving ourselves, right? As Christians, we’re constantly being edified, refined. Today is no different than yesterday. This year is no different than last year. We should constantly be seeking improvem […]

I’ve tried this before. Ya know, making a reading list for the new year. It didn’t work so well. But I’m trying again. Anyway. So there. I already have more than enough unread (and unfinished!) books on my shelf to read a different one each month. So that’s the plan. The first one, I’m actually already a couple [...]

TV. America’s babysitter. While it’s true that kids in general watch too much tv these days, tv itself isn’t evil or all that bad. There are some very good shows on television, you just have to find them. We’ve just come off a nine month digital satellite detox. All we had were our videos to [...]

Looking back can be profitable if you take what you see and learn from it and grow from it. No “dwelling” allowed. I’m just gonna say this up front: 2008 S.T.U.N.K. like a dead skunk most of the time - but I say that still with a smile on my face and hope in [...]

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So the tree is down and the ornaments are packed away. As I packed them up (organized by color, ahem) I counted and tallied and added and figured up the grand total. You could almost sing this to the tune of “12 Days of Christmas”: 37 clear 31 silver 31 gold 29 red 20 paper (including the adornaments) 17 blue 14 white 11 purple 10 [...]