Archive for the ‘Five For Friday’ Category

And it starts… August is here and summer is coming to an end.  I read someone’s blog who was griping at everyone who complains about summer being over already.  She lives where the weather is nice and gets to homeschool her kids.  She can shut it.  Our true sign that summer is ending is the […]

Ever since returning from our weekend getaway, the kids have decided they need to sleep with us.  Talk about crashing back down to reality after the weekend we had. In one of my smartest moves lately, I had not one but two meals outside in the Houston heat.  It didn’t start out that bad, but […]

For whatever reason, my kids don’t get invited to a lot of birthday parties.  When my niece was Goose’s age, she had a party almost every weekend.  Or so it seemed.  I was kind of worried once Goose started school that that would be the case with us.  For the past two school years, he […]

First week of summer vacation is done.  And I will admit it, I’m already manic.  I have been looking at the calendar to schedule play dates and lunches, and the entire summer has already passed me.  With the school aged boys being home for less than three full months and Baby Z growing bigger and […]

We went to Hyatt Hill Country last weekend.  Pictures to come.  And by pictures, I mean a ton.  Whether you want to see them or not, they are coming.  Until then, I have to say that we had a great weekend.  My kids were awesome, my family was awesome and my dad got stuck with […]

If I were doing ApeDonkey’s power ratings, I would have a lot in the bottom five…When you start the week with your orthodontist hanging up on you, your son’s favorite (for now) College basketball team playing so badly it goes down in the history books for worst performance in the NCAA championship game, things can […]

Here are five things I learned this week: I’m not very good about being selfless.  It’s the first Friday of the month, and I planned to attend Mass this morning.  I am really into attending Mass on First Fridays, and was excited that Baby Z was on her way to attending nine in a row.  […]