I’ve been pretty absent in posting for the last week. Mostly because I’ve been working on a “Flip That House” type of project. Mostly just remodeling a room, but I’ve been coming home from work and spending 2-3 hours each night, painting, tearing out carpet, etc. I haven’t even brought my computer home at night. [...]

I finished the book “The Simple Faith of Mr. Rogers” and it was great. I would highly recommend it to anyone, Christian or not. It’s filled with wonderful reminders to slow down and that the mantra of treat your neighbor like yourself is really what we all need. That being said I’ll try a new [...]

Z Man is a dreamer. I don’t necessarily mean a day dreamer either. He has dreams and sometimes what he calls nightmares, he’s gone so far as to acquire a real Indian dream catcher when we were on our spring break trip in New Mexico. I even helped him hang it above his bed. Most [...]

I’ve always wanted to set up certain weekly or monthly postings like book of the month or wine of the month type things. I am so undependable on my blog lately I haven’t taken the time to implement any of this. But since I am working late today and have already fed the boys their [...]

All who know me know I border on mild geekiness. It’s not my fault really. Some really nice undergraduate adviser in the computer science department convinced me that my high math scores would make a BS in CS a piece of cake. Man what a good liar he was, although I didn’t tell him such [...]

I hear these exact words at least once a day -
“Mom, I’m going to go poo poo and when I’m done I NEED you to wipe my butt.”
I’d complain but I’m just so darn happy that he’s finally potty trained (and has been since about the beginning of the year)….