Christmas before Thanksgiving? Not for Ken Allen.

I have worked at Dare 2 Share for 5 years now.  Almost as long as I’ve been there, my friend, Ken Allen, has been there.  Every year this time of year I am reminded how horrified he is that some people (ahem, I might be one of them) consider busting out the Christmas music before [...]

Good parenting idea?

Rob and I were young parents (Robbin was born when I was 20 and Rob was 21, and we had all of our 3 daughters by the time I was 24 and he was 25).  Anyway, we were always dreaming up brilliant ways of getting our girls to do chores, etc., but sometimes it backfired!  [...]

What I’ve (we’ve) been up to…

T – 4 days and counting….
Done:

New gate and fence built
Sprinkler system ready for summer
Swamp Cooler hooked up
8.2 tons of rock delivered, wheelbarreled into back yard, and spread around yard
5 pots filled with flowers
Shepherds hook hung with flowers
Patio furniture and patio cleaned off and straightened up
Run the Bolder Boulder (well….Rob did, I cheered)

Still to do:

Massive cleaning [...]

What’s your family lingo?

I have a few strange sayings in my vocabulary that I realize are due to my parents, grandparents, and probably sets of great-great grandparents.  Family lingo has a way of threading through time to create very interesting conversations.  Here’s a few sayings or words from my family history:

You look ducky! (compliment on looking nice that [...]

Foggy Lessons

Webster’s says: 
Main Entry: 1fog
Pronunciation: ‘fog, fäg
Function: noun
Etymology: probably back-formation from foggy
1 a : vapor condensed to fine particles of water suspended in the lower atmosphere that differs from cloud only in being near the ground b : a fine spray or a foam for firefighting
2 : a murky condition of the atmosphere or a [...]