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The personal ramblings of a successful small business owner who works at home. Also a wife of 20 years and the mom of 2 wonderful girls....1 in college and 1 in middle school. Alas, my babies are grown. No more diapers here!
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What Is It????
Soooo, what could this be? Have any guesses? Were you right? We will be sending Leia's pony tails to Pantene Beautiful Lengths. Pantene's minimum length is 8 inches, whereas Locks of Love's is 11...
Not Your Normal 12yo Girl
When other 12yo girls are watching High School Musical, wearing Hannah Montana clothes and collecting shiny, sparkly things, MY 12yo is watching Star Wars (hence the alias, Leia), wearing green camo a...
My Wayward Daughter
Haven't done an Eowyn update lately, so here goes....Eowyn has been home for the past week and a half. She wanted to come home for the fourth, so I talked her into coming earlier and staying longer. S...
Snapshot Saturday
We had a small family get together yesterday for the 4th. Then we went to see fireworks at the Big Butler Fairgrounds. I guess we arrived a little later than usual, or the fair itself was crowded, bec...
Field Trip!!!
Today we went on a field trip. We went to Pittsburgh's Strip District - a historic market district where you can buy all kinds of stuff. I hadn't been there for years, and Leia had never been there. S...
Let's Play Again - and the answer is....
Sorry, I almost forgot to post the answer to what Leia is doing now. I wanted to take a pciture of her doing it, but I never had the chance and now she is spending a couple days with her Pappy.Since n...
Let's Play Again!
Okay, it's time for another round of "Guess what Leia is Doing".While other kids are playing Guitar Hero, guess what 12yo Leia is doing....Well, she cleans more of her room here and there, but that's ...
Too Many Posts
So Leia and I went to spend some time with Grandma today. We hadn't seen her since the funeral last week. We had a nice visit and then went to dinner. After dinner we started weeding her rock wall. Oh...
School's Out
It's the first full day of summer vacation....do you know where your child is???? I know where mine is. I'll give you 3 guesses. (you'll never guess) Oh, we are talking about Leia, the 12yo, the one t...
Friday's To-Do List
Last day of school for Leia today. It's an early dismissal too, so she should be home around 1pm. We are going to go see Indiana Jones again at the movies. And then maybe do some shopping. But first.....
Wednesday Update
Not sure if anyone really cares about my lists, but here is an update....My Dr's appointment was what I expected. I have ovarian cysts (oh my, it's grown quite a lot is what the dr said) and I will h...
Tuesday's To-Do List
My SIL is only coming every other week through the summer to clean my house. So that means, today, I have to clean it myself. I can do it. I think I can, I think I can, I think I can. Clean my house c...
Just Some Stuff
So we are back from spending 2 days/1 night at camp. It is really my dad's house when they are up from Florida, but it started out as a camp, as so it will always be to us. Besides, it is set on 10 wo...