Friends don’t care if they show up to a party wearing the same outfit, in fact, they love it and take a picture together. Below is a picture of one of my best friends ever, Veronica at my kids’ birthday party this weekend. Guess we have the same taste in clothes – WARM! Veronica is [...]

Today was a day without electricity. We had an electrician come out to add a new electrical box and fix our rigged up electrical work. My father-in-law was here all day helping him. What would we do without him? From 9am – 8pm, we had no electricity, no heat, and no water. Even this evening, [...]

We’ve only had one good snow fall in Akron, Ohio so far this year, not even enough to break out our snow blower. But, boy did we have fun playing in it! Hopefully more snow is on the way! Enough to build a snowman, igloo, and go sledding!

My 5 year old daughter has been sick for the past couple nights, with headaches and a fever. Last night, she was pretty hot at 101.7. That’s right about the point where I start to get nervous and want to bring her temperature down right away. I gave her Children’s Advil and a cool bath [...]

This is the best part of Christmas. The smiles on your kids’ faces. Below are pictures of my kids opening their St. Nicholas Day stockings. To be so happy over silly things like giant pickles and Angry Bird toys makes me wonder why we stress over getting all the big, expensive toys for our kids…is [...]

We went out to dinner tonight. I checked my email when we got home and read this as a message from my mom on facebook: The driver side rear tire come off.  We walked back about 400 foot and found the tire in the woods. The lug bolts were all off. It’s getting dark. God [...]

My kids were so excited last week to decorate our Christmas tree. We got out all the Christmas decorating supplies and they went right to work. Giving kids direction on how to decorate a Christmas tree doesn’t work in our house. They want to to it their way and NOW. They were so excited and [...]