It's time for FTSF, simply click the button above and behold the list of entrants and the super awesome hosts.. This week's sentence is When I was younger, I wanted to.. I wanted to travel the USA, if there was a way to avoid the mountains. Those curvy roads and steep drop offs leave me hanging onto the oh crap handle of the car for dear life. I wanted to make it as a singer.. I wanted to be a psychologist specializing in victims of sexual assault and abuse. I wanted to have lots of land … [Read more...]

So despite Sunday being a hard day for me on Saturday we got to take punkin tail to his first real live parade. I could not wait to see his reactions to all the lights and noise and the like, because you know we are small town so our emergency vehicles are automatically part of every parade. So we loaded up Brody's stroller and all the kids and headed for town.. He loved it. I was surprised that the noises and sirens didn't startle him but they didn't. He watched it all like a pro and that he … [Read more...]

Many moons ago, when I was pregnant with our last child *yes we knew he was our last because Daddy got the snip while I was pregnant* I apparently had an issue with wild animals. The post from the ladies on Dose of Reality lead me to post about this incident, despite the fact it still makes me shiver. I was about 6 months pregnant and my best friend and I had been watching the movie 'Cleopatra'. You know the last installment where she kills herself by allowing a King Cobra to bite her. We … [Read more...]

I know I have been basically invisible in the last week. Lots of things have been going on, some I can talk about on here and some I cannot. The one I can is my friend Renee went back to Australia. With her smile and laughter and adorable accent no longer behind me as we worked on our computers together I realized how quiet my days can be. Taking her to the airport we talked as if she wasn't really leaving. Cracking jokes at the counters about turning around and finding a place to hide … [Read more...]

1.  This week's Hodgepodge is Volume 123.  What's something you've done recently that was as easy as 1-2-3? Sleeping. As in getting kids on the bus and falling out cold in my computer chair. I am not even certain I made it to 2 before I was snoring. It is called mental and physical exhaustion 2.  The Wednesday Hodgepodge also happens to fall on the first day of May ...what is something you may do this month?  Get flowers set out in the yard, get some bills paid, find a job … [Read more...]