Parenting
Second Son’s graduation has me thinking about how I show up as a mom. I tell you, it’s not how I thought I would back before I was one. When I became a mother, something inside me changed. Something went a little left. It’s like a secret code was...As A Homeowner
Ok, where did we leave off? Oh yeah – Memorial Day weekend…. Well, Sweet Pea was here that weekend, but it did not stop the manual labor efforts in the backyard. While Second Son and I continued work on building gates for the deck, Sweet Pea and PDD went...Public Education
Friday was the last day of school for my kids. Sweet Pea came over the Grandma’s Thursday evening with permission to stay the whole weekend, so she got to attend PDD’s awards assembly with me Friday morning. PDD received a total of 5 awards at the...As A Homeowner
Yesterday (Saturday) morning, we got up early and met my BFF Patsy at IHOP for breakfast at 8. After breakfast, we came back here to the house and filled up Patsy’s pickup truck with crap from the backyard and took it to the city dump. Because of all the rain...As A Homeowner
We tackled the repair of the privacy fence on Saturday. Second Son decided we should just get it out of the way, so I called Baby Sis to see if she’d go to Lowe’s with me to get the lumber (she’s got a truck, I don’t) and called Dad to see if...