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I’m sorry to constantly be posting about infestations, but the bugs are coming out in full force. Some tiny ants were coming in the back door to get at the cat food, so I tried to put some Terro in their path. The bottle was old and its contents were too crystalized, so I just [...]

We needed to fill up a little time on the last day of school. There’s an awards ceremony and closing devotion in the morning and a little roller skating in the afternoon. We decided that we would show a movie for the kids who were done with all of their homework, and make anyone who [...]

I feel like some kind of evil genius! Well, not ‘genius’, but an evil tinkerer for sure. Lloyd’s never been a breakfast person, but he started eating breakfast last year, which makes me happy. It’s a pretty healthy one – an apple, a string cheese stick, and a breakfast bar. The breakfast bar actually came [...]

Something you should know about me is that I obsessively think daydream about stuff all day long. I like to think of it as honing my ‘thinking outside the box’ skills, which will look really good on my resume after I get fired for daydreaming so much. Lately I’ve been thinking about this garden/tomato/lettuce thing. [...]

We’ve got a bug problem. I find it fascinating that the mere shape of an insect can affect my reaction to it. Insects give me the jibblies if they’re not safely behind glass of some sort. Yet while I’m not a bug person, ladybugs are o.k. in my book. At the end of last summer [...]

My Dad called this week and asked if we wanted some company for the weekend. I said that I thought we were pretty free, but I’d better check with Lauren. Lauren thought I was crazy… “You have a conference in Omaha all day Friday, then Middle School Fun Night all evening. Saturday morning I have [...]