I can’t believe time has gone by so fast.  This time four years ago, I was admitted to the hospital and was about to welcome our only baby girl into the world.  Epidural?  No thanks!  I’m too anxious to see my girl that all the pains sort of subsided.  The only thought I had was [...]

Edited to note: I failed to mention that without the help of my wonderful parents and dedicated sisters/husband, this trip would not have been possible.  Yes, we needed the whole “army” to take care of our four children, I mean with Parker alone (20 months) who gets into everything, you’d need two people on skates [...]

Have you ever had one of those “it works for me” ideas and wanted to share with the world?  Well, I have one and it’s so mind-bogglingly simple that I kick myself for not coming up with it sooner. Here’s the scenario: you have a wedding to attend to in three weeks in Houston (where you’ll [...]

Did I catch your attention with the title of this post? If so, read on and you’ll find out why, my dear reader. Sophia woke me up around 5:30ish this morning with her usual visit to mommy and daddy’s room. I can hear her little steps down the hall and finally a push [...]

My heart goes out to the thousands of people who have lost their houses in the California fires and ones who have lost their lives.   It’s truly tragic and devastating, to say the least.   My prayer goes out to you for your safety and hope you will be able to rebuild soon. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I went [...]

I haven’t touched on politics on this blog before since it’s not something I’m comfortable in discussing with anyone besides my hubbie and family, since it can get pretty ugly. But I can’t help it when my cousin sent this to me this morning: If Peggy thinks that I’m paying for her gas, and her [...]

I was channel surfing last night, since there was nothing to watch, and stumbled on Antiques Roadshow. I told the hubbie that my new “job”, besides from being a “household engineer”, is to be a “professional shopper” at…yard sale, that is! Have you ever watched Antiques Roadshow? The premise of the show is this: [...]

I thought having Tyler and Trent back to school, it’d give me some “free” time to dedicate to this blog. But it hasn’t worked out that way. There are so many projects to do around the house and lots of books to read. So I’ve missed a few important dates in September [...]

I love that show, Deserving Design, on HGTV. Its host, Vern Yip has been one of my favorite designers on TV since "Trading Spaces". I love his design, elegant and classy. So back in April when Deserving Design had a contest that you can nominate someone who deserves to have a room [...]

First of, I'd like to wish my oldest sister a big happy 41st-birthday!!!!!!!! She is being released from the hospital on her b-day (again! Same thing last year) after a three-week stay for the stem cell transplant. The procedure went well but she had to endure a lot of pain and infections, [...]

After reading about Ann Curry donating her hair to Locks of Love (LOL), I've decided to post about it on 8/20/2006 and took one step further to join her in growing out my hair for this great cause. I did have some concerns about LOL after doing some research on the net (in my [...]

It's been so long since my last post that I totally forgot the password to WordPress! Could that be a sign of aging? I've been up to my eyeballs with projects around here. And I can say that I'm DONE, as in D!O!N!E, put a fork in me kind of done, with my "home [...]

Every previous Mother's Day, all the mothers in our families (that would be Mom, two sisters, sister-in-law and moi) spent our day cooking for the whole family. Our Mom prefers it that way since it would be so chaotic to have all twenty of us dining out. But not this year! [...]

"I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while [...]

I've started this post last week when it was still March and now it's April. So many projects...so little time. Please excuse the mumble jumble! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ No, I'm not referring to the March Madness as in the NCAA Tournament that's going on right now. I haven't been a fan of basketball since the awesome [...]

It would have been less of a headache and faster to buy a cake at the store and leave it to the professional. But when your adorable little girl asks for a "Hello Kitty" cake, your first thought is to try your hand at baking (that's the easy part, thanks to Mr. Duncan Hines), [...]

To: Our town DPW From: Betty (last name) Date: 2/27/2008 Re: Damaged mailbox Address: 123 Main Street Our Town, USA I'm writing to you regarding my mailbox which was damaged by "Our Town" plow truck. The incident took place on Thursday, 2/7/08 between 11:30 AM-12:00 PM. At 8:00 AM, our mailbox was in good condition as I removed the previous day's mail [...]

“I think you should dye your hair” I said as my husband gave me the quizzical look as if to say ‘what are you smokin’ this time!’ “No really, your hair is all gray and you’re not even 40 yet! When we go out people might think that you’re my dad!” After he dusted himself off of [...]

Although we don’t bleed red, white and blue in true Patriots colors but it still hurts right now thinking about the disappointing loss of the Trophy to the Giants last night. Perfect season (18-0) comes down to one important game and boy did the Patriots blow it BIG!  It was just painful, like having [...]

I had to dust off my laptop and rack my brain for the password to log into WordPress to write this post. Today is very special since Trent is officially five years old!! Here he was enjoying a party with his classmates and cousins this past weekend at one of those germ-infested indoor [...]