I like to read. Sometimes I don’t have nearly enough time for it as I would like, but settling into a good book {especially on a fair-weather day} has always been on the top of my list of favorite things. When I was in third grade, a teacher told my mother that I would probably never achieve the required reading…
Thanks to Netflix, our ever-lengthening evenings are beginning to be filled with show after show of television that we’ve ‘missed’ all summer long. Last night, we were watching a mini-marathon of Revolution. A pretty decent show between the loose acting and sometimes hilarious special effects, yet entertaining nonetheless. For those who haven’t watched it {we’re only a few episodes into…
As a kid, I was a little short. Not like I couldn’t go on most of the rides at Valleyfair kind of short, but more of your average-Joe, vertically-challenged variety. Which wasn’t really that big of a deal to me until it was time to go to Middle School. A whole huge new school of two buildings and a virtual…
Yesterday was my parent’s 35th wedding anniversary. Thirty-five years ago, she was the nervous bride getting into her gown that her dad paid for. He was the anxious groom whose friends joking held him from running {we have photo proof!}. She smiled at him as her dad lifted her veil. He smiled back, thanking his lucky stars. The said their…
Oh, this weekend was a goodie. I got to hang with my nieces and nephew at the pool Friday {is it just me or are pools way cooler than they were when we were kids *cough* just a few years ago?}. I got myself back in the kitchen to whip up some peach bbq sauce {holy NUM}, freeze some corn…