Tag! You’re It!

If you’ve blogged for any time at all you’ve heard of tagging… Here’s one that makes you think just a bit.  And just to share the love – consider yourself tagged (that’s how I got it, so it’s only fair! – and let me know if you don’t mind so I can read your reponses.  [...]

Failure Mode – and why we SHOULDN’T go there

Lisa, The Funny Farmer (her words- I promise), reprinted an article today by Orson Scott Card about comparing ourselves and what it really means to be a Mormon wife.  Please, please, PLEASE… for all that is good and holy Click on over and read this post.
Sometimes it’s just so good to have a reminder.

All thanks to ‘Homemaking Meeting’

When I was younger I wanted to take art, but you couldn’t take art and band.  I chose band so I never got to learn anything above elementary school art.  I loved to doodle, my notebooks would covered in eyes, trees, little five petal flowers (you know, the one with the circle in the middle [...]

Random Strange Comment Day

Riding in the truck with Kevin he found occassion to say, “I’d never make it as a butterfly.” 
Anyone who knows him will understand why I burst out laughing. 
Later in the evening, another conversation between Kevin and I prompted me to ask, “Didn’t you ever play with cooties when you were younger?” 
 
 

 
Seeing the look on the [...]

See! I can follow a recipe!

 
I knew as soon as I saw the recipe for Kristy’s Fruit Tarts on Light Refreshments Served that I had to make them.  The picture above is of the ones I made for our Primary Teachers today.  They have a lightly sweetened shortbread type of “crust”.  The filling reminds me of cream cheese fruit dip.  And, [...]

Personality test, sshmersonlity test!

You sit down, prepared to be enlightened.  Ready for the all important wisdom that will guide you along your path.  Pen at hand you anxiously await the precious codes that will unlock your future dreams.
Yeah.  Phooey! 
So, the first day of the career fair we took several personality tests.  There were a few of us in the [...]

Reinventing Myself

What exactly do I want to be when I grow up? This is a question I ponder quite a bit lately. Of course, the fact that I’m nearly 40 years old makes it kind of fun. And scary. But Exciting. See? I have mixed feelings about the whole thing. [...]