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Heavy Workload

heavy school workload

Sabreena is working on her Junior year class schedule. This is what it’s looking like AP English & Composition Honors Pre-Calculus Honors Chemistry AP Biology AP United States History Honors Spanish IV Drafting and Design CAD II Art Fundamentals This is a full workload with no room for rest. If she were to drop the [...]




DIY Handmade Coasters

handmade coasters, diy coasters from tiles.

For some reason we go through a lot of coasters. We either by crappy ones that get moldy or don’t keep the water off the table or they break or we lose them. Over the last 10 years we gone through dozens easily. I made a couple trips to home stores looking for new coasters [...]




That Time Emeril Tweeted Me

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Yeah THAT Emeril, Emeril Lagasse of Food TV fame. I posted a review the other day about a purchase we made of his Emerilware cookware.  It was a mostly positive review and it fed out to my Twitter account. He picked it up. The kids and I were sitting at the kitchen table just finishing [...]




If You’re Gonna Have Any Kind of Cancer It Might as Well Be This One

creepy me, Mom and my sister Kim

Wednesday night I received some news. My mother has breast cancer. We had been working on appointments and biopsies for about 2 weeks but the news was still a little shocking. I woke up Thursday morning and was literally assaulted by emails and blogs posts all pointing to breast cancer awareness, treatment and prevention. I [...]




This Is What Is Wrong With Society!!!!

sugar-babies

So on my way to work this morning I heard about a website called SeekingArrangement.com.  In NO way an I endorsing this site or getting paid to write this because to be honest it appears to be WAY creepy and a lot gross. An MIT graduate  came up with the idea of an online dating [...]




Look Mom! I’m Driving!

Proud teenager girl to drive a car

Two years ago the big announcement about Sabreena was she was getting braces. Yesterday Sabreena drove for the first time. This really snuck up on me. I know she’s 16 now but driving didn’t really enter my mind until signing the Driver’s Ed forms last week. Then I get a phone call Tuesday morning from [...]




Wordless Wednesday – Antique

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Check out this antique. This is the first iPod that I every owned and I bought this back in 2003. It was 15GB which was HUGE in 2003. I can’t believe we still have this around the house. For those of you wondering, YES it still works.




Is Eating At McDonald’s Really Fiscally Responsible?

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Wednesday night Shaun and I went to the men’s basketball game at the University of Delaware and had a great time but I heard one thing while we were at the game that really bothered me. There was a lady next to me with her daughter who was about four and her son who was [...]




Wordy Wednesday-Hillbilly Wineglasses

hillybilly wine glasses

Over the Christmas holidays we visited my in-laws (Rob’s Parents) and his mother show me a gift that someone had given to my Father-in-Law, remember him, I wrote about his resemblance to the Elmer Fudd Hat model. Anyway, she showed me these Hillbilly Wine Glasses. Simply put they are mason or jelly jars glued to [...]




Friday Fives-5 Beautiful Beaches

Cape Town, South Africa

I’m back with another list of 5. This week is a list of 5 beaches I’d love to visit. You’ll never get me to say I want to go skiing or dog-sledding but point me in the direction of sun, sand and surf and I’m there. I chose these places because lets face it, the [...]