A cou­ple of days ago there was a head on col­li­sion on a main high­way about an hour away from here. It is a road I travel at least once or twice a month. It hap­pened dur­ing the day. I was on that road ear­lier in the day. The weather was not a fac­tor. Someone […]

Munchkin grand­baby was here all last week because her day­care peo­ple were on vaca­tion. What a hoot!! If I could have counted the num­ber of times she asked me “why grandma?” it prob­a­bly would have been around a mil­lion!! 300 book read­ings, a mil­lion puz­zles put together, trips to “see the horseys” and time spent […]

I really ought to be out doing yard work but a few things the last few days have me feel­ing dis­con­certed.Saw an ad on TV that had a dis­claimer that said “not avail­able in Guam” . Oh. Okay. I will make sure and buy one before I go.Saw another ad, for cream cheese I think, […]

Mar­riage has been on my mind a lot lately, espe­cially with my son get­ting mar­ried this fall. There is so much I want to say to them about mar­riage and than I real­ize it is their’s to find out, just like I did and mil­lions of oth­ers. I guess I was think­ing about it a […]

Did you ever have one of those week­ends when you had a whole lot to get done, and you did get some things done, but not the things you needed to get done, yet they still needed doing, but you were upset you didn’t get done the impor­tant stuff,  and know you should be happy […]

I am hop­ing this makes every­one very jeal­ous. My hus­band and I took his soon to be deployed son and daughter-in-law to an Iowa Cubs game on the 4th. Imag­ine our sur­prise when about 20 min­utes into the game there is a flurry of activ­ity with cam­eras and oh-so-obvious secret ser­vice peo­ple a few feet […]

Oh my gosh…I can­not believe how long it has been since I was last on here. I missed writ­ing here while wait­ing for my new blog, now I can hardly find the time to get down here and write. Sorry. Really!!Busy does not describe this last week. I will just say 15 peo­ple slept here […]