the world of weed

Me.....not Rachel. I've been awake since 1:50 this morning. At 4:30 this morning I cleaned the bathroom and mopped the kitchen floor. ...

Rachel didn't start out as a good napper. In fact, she was a terrible napper for a good nine months after she was born. But somewhere al...

Yesterday afternoon was our church's fall picnic. We've gone a couple of times, and each year it's been held somewhere differen...

Remember how much I love camping ? Well, my husband has been asking ever since that night to go camping. I kept saying I was willing to give...

The other night as my husband gave Rachel a bath he gave her the foam letters in her name in the tub and asked her if she could use them to ...

Driving home from the library this evening I looked in the rear view mirror and saw Rachel looking up with her hands in the air, waving them...

Several weeks ago I was at a children's resale shop in town and found a brand new with the tags on princess nightgown. It was two sizes...

Rachel's red toes have been "scrubbing off," as she puts it, so she's been wanting me to re-paint her toes. Finally today...

Hooray! According to Rachel's teacher, today was another great day at school. So glad to hear.... It's like pulling teeth to get R...

Remember that old commercial where the narrator asked, "How do you spell relief?" and the person on camera held up a pack of antac...

Today was the big day! I couldn't sleep last night, I had so many concerns swirling through my head--I thought first day of school jitte...

The tide has turned. For years and years I had to go to "Meet the Teacher" night before school started to meet my new students and...

This morning Rachel asked to watch one of her Baby Einstein DVDs. Why she still likes those is beyond me, but from time to time she watches...

Rachel can't say "water fountains," so she calls them "water mountains." So we went to the water mountains yesterday...

This has been the summer for staining. First the fence (not because we wanted to, but because we had to ). Then the swingset (it needed it)....

Saturday night while Rachel was playing downstairs with Daddy, I snuck upstairs for a few minutes for myself to take care of my much-neglect...

The state fair is going on right now, and we decided to take Rachel for the first time this past weekend. She had a great time. Before we le...

I downloaded pictures off the camera this afternoon and found some I had forgotten about, so this is going to be a random post of random pic...