As I was typ­ing the head­ing for this, I real­ized this post could be just about any­thing in this world today, which, I sup­pose, is a sad com­men­tary. But my dilemma today is real ver­sus fake christ­mas trees. Up until a few years ago, we had never owned a fake tree. My chil­dren decided they […]

Okay…have been think­ing for some time I need to become a her­mit. Too much stuff is both­er­ing me about lifestyles, etc. But today was the push over the edge. They have messed with Monop­oly. Monop­oly. How dare they. Yes, I know they have had dif­fer­ent ver­sions out of Monop­oly for some time, but the new […]

Just so you know…one plus one does not equal two…it equals THREE!! (or four???) YEAH YEAH YEAH!! Just when you thought the roller coaster ride was end­ing!!Happy expect­ing and enjoy the jour­ney!!LoveThe Iowa grandma and gramps.

I can­not let another day go by with­out send­ing out a huge, very pub­lic, thank you to my behind the scenes team at my son’s wed­ding. To every­one who helped…there is absolutely no way I can repay you for tak­ing the final scenes of the wed­ding, doing some edit­ing, and mak­ing it into the most […]

We have many wishes for our children…some come true, some do not. We raise them uncer­tainly, never know­ing if what we are doing is the right thing…if we have smoth­ered them too much or have let them be who they need to be. There is no blue­print, and every­thing you thought you knew goes right […]