2008

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A Taste of Ike

A Taste of Ike

You wouldn’t think that our little mid-western town would be threatened by Hurricane Ike who was headed straight for Galveston, Texas.  But, alas, we were not just threatened, we were hit hard!  Our household was among thousands without power for nearly 36 hours. . .some still don’t have it.  Ours was finally turned on about [...]

Potty Training Update

Potty training is going okay. . .E very rarely has accidents, but she asks to go potty so often it’s ridiculous (and exhausting, and frustrating).  She only actually pees about 1 of every 8 times that I take her.  So, we’re not there yet, but at least I’m not mopping pee up from my hardwood [...]

A Rainy Friday

Rain, glorious rain!  We needed it so badly!  It rained all day today, the nice gentle kind of rain that makes you want to curl up with a good book or take a nap.  Too bad I’m potty training my 2 year old right now and every 3 or 4 minutes I hear, “Mommy, pee [...]

We found our camera!!

We found our camera!!

After 2 weeks of near panic due to our camera going awol, I am happy to report the lost has been found.  This post is just showing a few pics of the last part of summer and the first day of school (how, how, how can that be??).
Sunday afternoon canoing with the fam:

Ellie on a [...]

A Day Off

I actually wrote this post on Friday, the 15th and for some reason couldn’t publish it. . .
I am up early this morning because my sister and I are heading to a few yard sales in the hopes of some good deals on gender-neutral baby items for her. I’ve hardly done any yard-saleing this [...]