A blog dedicated to those of us who wake up each day striving for perfection and go to bed every night with the realization that we haven't reached it yet.
“Do a Google keyword search on “quilt humility block” and you will find almost a thousand quilt-related websites claiming that back in the old days, quilters would put a deliberate error in their quilts – a block turned sideways, a different shade of red in …
So I guess if you’ve been doing this long enough you will find that it becomes harder and harder to be excited about comments on your blog because of the mass amounts of spam but here are a couple of my favorite spam comments: “I’m …
I was at my sister in laws for her daughter’s baptism. And as we were baking cupcakes for the event at 11:00 pm (because that is when the children had finally gone to bed and we had the kitchen to ourselves) we began the discussion …
I was over at my sister in laws house this weekend. She had a party the night before for her son, and 13 of his friends and family. I passed by the bathroom and couldn’t help and stare at the hand towels in the children’s …
I found this site today and really enjoyed playing the games. Now I have something for my kids to do when they say they are bored. We used Houghton and Mifflin in Tucson for most subjects in the elementary there. And these are a nice …
My beehive is fasting 24 hours for the first time today. From the time she was 8 until now, she has only had to fast for one meal. She is a little emotional about it and neither one of us are thinking this is fun. …
Today I took a shower and a nap, got dressed, did my hair, put on a little make up, made my bed and meals for the kids, made plarn out of plastic grocery bags and taught 7 YW to crochet with it. Then I sat down, proud …
Helping my children drink more water during the summer has been my challenge lately. They just don’t seem to like the taste as much as soda, juice or just about anything else. So here are some recipes that help me win the water war 1. …
This wasn’t my best week on my climb to perfection. Although I did get my Darling little 12 year old off to girls camp….(by 3:00 am the morning of.) This getting old thing is getting old. Let’s see what else have I been up to …
The truth is…I think Molly might be 10 years younger than me. Because I can’t imagine how she’s able to get so much done and not pass out periodically. I have this incredible urge to sleep in until 10. I’m so grateful when my baby wants …