Last week both kids came home from school with permission slips to go on a field trip. Not only did I need to sign the papers to say that they could go, but I also checked off that I would drive both kids to the field trip as well. I figured since both classes were […]
Archive for April, 2008
Earlier this week I was horrified to hear that some stupid ***hole stole a valuable prize monkey from our local zoo. Not only was this bad because this little monkey was just a baby, only three pounds and sick, but this particular monkey was on loan to our zoo from another zoo. The father of this […]
Finally the day arrived that my daughter has been waiting for since she first started playing the violin. Today was their musical festival day and competition. There were a lot of schools represented at this event and over 115 children were performing. The kids worked really hard this past year on learning the violin and […]
Comic book collections
Posted in Entertainment, Kids on Apr 22nd, 2008
I get such a kick out of life when any one of my children show the same interests in things that I do. Right now my daughter is heavily into all things crafting, so this gives her and I something to do. Now my youngest son has shown an interest in collecting comic books. As […]
Wow, I can’t believe how fast time flies. Today I realized that it has been two weeks since my last post to recognize my top droppers in Entrecard. So like I promised, here is the list for the top droppers on this site for the past couple of weeks. If your on […]
This morning at 8:00 am my daughter and I headed out the door for her to attend her first fiddle-a-thon. For the past month she has been getting pledges to play for 200 minutes. All the money that was collected for this event is going towards their school’s string program.
I have to say that this […]
I believe that most of you are already aware of the small home crafting business that I am trying to get up and running. Well unfortunately I can’t report that it’s been a huge success so I have been doing a lot of thinking in which direction I should head to try to get this […]
I would love it if I could get just one weekend to sit back and relax and do nothing, but this just doesn’t seem to be the way my life goes. We have another busy weekend a head of us. On Saturday Kara has her fiddle-a-thon. I have to be at the middle school by […]
A vacation from the past
Posted in Entertainment, Family on Apr 16th, 2008
Now that spring has finally arrived and the nice weather is here, I started thinking about ideas where the family could go on vacation. So I started remembering all the fun spring vacations that my family use to take around this time of the year. One particular memory comes to mind and I thought it […]
First day of fishing season
Posted in Entertainment, Family on Apr 16th, 2008
This time of year always brings back fond memories. Yesterday was the first day of fishing season and this was one of the days that my dad used to look forward to every year. He always said that the first day of fishing season and the first day of hunting season should be declared a […]




