Dance Moms and their Stars

So most of you who read this probably already know I have a tiny dancer on my hands. Last year she was invited to try out for, and consequently got into her studio’s Company. Yay for her, tons of work for me, but totally worth how much she loved it. This year she tried out again and made it in. [Read more...]

Dinner

I try every week to make a meal plan. Actually I try every other week – I try to keep my food shopping to roughly twice a month, with maybe a run out in between for milk & eggs. Usually this works pretty well and should a disaster strike, we’re prepared with more than three days worth of food. That puts us more than three days from anarchy, or so the saying goes. [Read more...]

My Side of the Mountain

I started reading this book with my kids tonight. You can find a current (and inexpensive) printing of it here as well as many customer reviews.

I read this book for the first time probably around 1989/1990. I’ve reread it many times since then. I’ve gone so far as to push it on my kids, although none ever took a real interest. I decided tonight to start it, and lo and behold, all three listened with very few interruptions. [Read more...]

New Year, New Start

Today I saved my blog as a book in PDF format and deleted the whole thing.

It was kind of cleansing to put away so many memories. Births and Deaths. New friends and old. My “baby” is almost seven now. I kept a blog roughly from 2000 through 2011. I hadn’t posted a single thing yet this year and it was just calling out for me to start over.

So before I start down memory lane, I just wanted to say thanks for sticking with me and I hope my newest incarnation of this keeps your attention. I’m really hoping to have more art and less bitching this time around.

Yah, not exactly life-altering, but we all get there one step at a time.