Surprise! It’s not the pretty lights on the featured photo. No, as much as I wish I had lovely lights strung around my home. This is a real-life check. We’re more than a week into January, and yep, Christmas decorations are not yet put away. […]

I give up. I give up on perfection. Real life is hard. Real life leaves you with five minutes here and there to tackle things you want to do. Real life leaves little room for perfection. I give up on long blog posts and schedules […]

2017 Update: This will be the last Throwback Thursday for a while. I’ve got to focus on our impending move. Quick recap of prior two posts Difficult Year I, and Difficult Year II: My husband and I were hoping to add a sixth child to […]

Just when you think you’re gaining traction, you find out it’s 95% likely that you’ll move. To another state. Into a smaller home. And school is starting soon. I still have plenty of posts planned for the future.  And if I can manage it, I’ll […]

When I was a little girl, I remember a Sunday lesson on death.  The teacher had a glove.  She asked us if it could move on its own.  We answered no.  She put the glove on and demonstrated how moving her fingers inside the glove […]

Since I’m bringing my blogs into one place, I’ve decided once a week to create a “Throwback Thursday” post where I will be bringing over older posts from my blogs.  For me, this will create a more cohesive stream of content and a view of […]

I plan on posting soon about the reasons I think Scouting is a great thing for boys–especially those on the autism spectrum.  For right now I will say this has been the scouting month. We had our Pinewood Derby We had our District dinner, which […]

I haven’t posted in over two months because not long after I found out my tests were okay, I came down with bronchitis.  It really knocked me out.  I had two rounds of antibiotics, two rounds of an oral steroid and a steroid inhaler as […]

I saw my primary care doctor recently for an infection I had.  I have a tendency to get this type of infection. She looked at my lab work and we talked for a bit.  I’ve previously been anemic (usually during a pregnancy), I’ve had thinning […]

Have you ever heard a piece of music that so completely speaks to you? Okay, this may sound strange, but I was in the car the other day and listening to mp3’s.  (That by itself is not really strange).  I have a love of big […]