I am still working to get all the stuff I need ready for my daughter’s sweet sixteen party. Good thing I have access to color printing so I could print off the invitations myself. I still need to order food, order blacklight stuff and get the house in order for the party. [...]

It doesn’t seem like Christmas until we have the Christmas tree up and the lights and decorations on. Monday night we purchased the tree, Tuesday I put on all the lights and yesterday, we decorated. Well, the decorating was mostly done by myself and my six year old son who finds it fun [...]

My son is excited for the big feast tomorrow! He had a pretend feast in school (they dressed as pilgrims) but he was disappointed that they had bologna instead of Turkey. Hopefully this holiday will be a safe one. It always seems that we need to pull out the Medicare supplement insurance [...]

This week my eldest daughter is at an all girls church camp (heaven help the leaders!). Just one week ago, she sliced her ear open by dropping the handle of the lawn mower on the back of her head. Don’t ask me how this happened, I have no idea. I am not [...]

I found a fun quiz from T-Mobile – the Mom to Mom quiz. Find out what your parenting style is. The quiz has you answer 10 questions involving teen scenarios. The questions were thought provoking and it was hard to choose an answer on some of the questions. Have fun!
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This is the first year that I have heard about the World’s Longest Garage Sale. An article appeared in the Parade magazine recently about a garage sale that is held every year and stretches for 654 miles. The sale was started in Tennessee in the late 1990s and now goes from Ohio to [...]

The temperature has dropped here and it is even cold inside our house. I hate to turn the heat up because that just costs even more money. I was thinking of installing one of those material handling vinyl strip doors so that I could put a small heater in one room and block [...]

This year, I want to throw a Halloween party. I always thought it would be fun to have a costume party and a scary theme. There are so many recipes for cool looking Halloween food that I am sure it would be a great success. I found these cool Halloween invitations that [...]

Have you longed to drive a car really, really fast? You can now experience what it is like to be a race car driver! Xperience Days offers Formula 200 Racing experiences. The day starts with instruction on controlling a racecar followed with live demonstrations and practice in Volvos. You are then [...]

For those of you that live close to New York City, Kids Night on Broadway is coming up. On November 5th, you will be able to purchase tickets to select shows. For every ticket purchased, one child gets to attend free. We took our two girls a couple of years ago and [...]