We’re celebrating 20 years married today! What better way that to remember what all went wrong on our wedding day? Ha ha. They say something goes wrong at every wedding… My wedding day began like most any bride’s. I was excited and nervous and worried and happy. I arrived at the church early so that… [continue reading]
Our Initiation into Parenthood
It was at the hospital after the birth of our first child that I first realized what a sound sleeper my husband is. I don’t remember what it was I needed, but I kept pushing the nurse’s button and nothing was happening. I tried calling Jason, who was asleep on a pull out chair beside… [continue reading]
Why I don’t buy from independent distributors
How dumb I felt. I should have seen it coming. At my child’s basketball game one of the fellow moms left her front row position to come chat with me in the back. Yea! What a happy feeling that someone wanted to come chat with me. “Maybe we would be friends,” I thought. I enjoyed… [continue reading]
4 Sure Ways to be a Hero to Your Kids this Summer!
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Tyson Foods and SheSpeaks. All opinions are entirely my own. WONDER WOMAN and all related characters and elements © & ™ DC Comics and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Summer is HERE! I am so excited, so much more time with the kids doing things… [continue reading]
Back in the Hospital
After what seemed like a freak hospital stay with my eight-year old son, I thought we’d come through the toughest part of our journey. I was wrong. We were living in limbo from day to day all seven of us crashing in my parents house. My husband was frantically trying to figure out a new… [continue reading]
An unexpected hospital stay
One day early this year I noticed a tiny white dot on my eight year old son’s face as I gave him Tylenol for a fever. His face caught my attention, but I didn’t think all that much about it. The next day the dot was a little bigger. It looked like an ant bite…. [continue reading]
Worst Dentist
Shaking. I left the office shaking, but glad I was out. It was the worst experience I had EVER had at a dental office. The next crazy thing that happened during this move was in finding a new dentist. Our insurance plan included one and only one dental office (and its 3 locations) in a… [continue reading]
The great move
We left our Dallas area home, spent weeks in San Antonio, had a crazy Dairy Queen experience, and then made the trip back to Dallas to finalize the sale of our house and vacate the premises. Moving day finally came. A crew arrived, and there went all of our worldly belongings onto a couple of… [continue reading]
It happened at Dairy Queen
If you’ve road tripped through south Texas then you know that when you get hungry there is ALWAYS a Dairy Queen. There may not be anything else, but Dairy Queens abound. It was on one of those many back and forth trips while “living” in San Antonio that we once again stopped at a Dairy… [continue reading]
The San Antonio weeks of turmoil
So we packed our suitcases and headed on the next part of our crazy journey. I call it the San Antonio weeks of turmoil. Ha! Vision in my head: Wonderful family time together in a beautiful hotel on the Riverwalk enjoying weekends of family fun and exploring San Antonio. Can’t you picture it? Isn’t it… [continue reading]