On April 30 2009, Design Cares benefit for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will present a runway show and auction of designer gowns by internationally renowned designers, including: Adrienne Landau, Carolina Herrera, Catherine Malandrino, Chado Ralph Rucci, Christian V. Siriano, Diane Von Furstenberg, John Galliano, Maggie Norris Couture, Marc Jacobs Collection, Matthew Williamson, Nicole Miller, [...]

I’ve been absent from the blog since losing power Sunday!  it wasn’t much of a storm but enough to give us a taste of living without electricity, water or heat for two days!!  All of that really messed up my sleep cycle as well!  thankfully we’re warm  right now!!

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Did you see the Fowler – Long, Wife Swap episode?  I should have posted right away, I KNEW it was going to be a big story.  The sad part is I agree with some of what he said BUT his delivery was so horrible it was hard to watch. He had NO right to tear down Mrs. Long like that.  [...]

It’s February 2nd, 2009! Ok, it’s not, I was offline much of yesterday, totally exhausted but wanted to wish you all a… Happy <Belated> Groundhog Day! I LOVE the Bill Murray movie and always did a lesson plan on Groundhog Day when I was teaching in Japan.  It’s a great piece of Americana.

Barrack Obama is President!  I have to say I was in shock!  I was a swing voter until a few days before election day but I did vote for him at the last minute because I couldn’t live with myself had he lost.  I didn’t talk much about it with the kids, sure they saw him on [...]

My favorite television program of all time is Little House on the Prairie.  I still daydream that I’m a lost Ingalls girl but as I get older, some of the real elements of the story bother me. It seems easier to forget those elements in Michael Landon’s production but since I know every second of [...]

We had a very quiet, non-eventful Three King’s Day last week.  Boy2001  had to go to school but we were blessed with a snow day the next day!! We watched Dora the Explorer: Dora Celebrates Three Kings Day a few hundred times on the DVR to appease girl2006 and all was right with the world.  I [...]

sorry for the delay in posting.  I’ve been a real debbie downer lately and didn’t want that to infuse itself into the blog! It was a fun holiday season but I really crashed hard this week! Stay tuned, I’ve got Country Bobs and Thumbuddy stuff to give away!!

Merry Christmas everyone!  I got in the spirit a little late so I’ve been in high gear getting the house decorated, shopping, wrapping!  The best thing so far has been making a gingerbread village. sooo cute, I’ll have pics tomorrow night!