Quoth Og Mandino

“If you feel incompetent, remember past successes.”

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Recent Entries

Laboring over Labor Day Weekend

Well, we certainly labored this weekend, and my poor aching back is the proof. In the spirit of getting daughter ready for her big entrance into seventh grade, we finally convinced her (note that WE had to convince HER) that a wallpaper pattern of chubby hippos and cartoon birds was simply not appropriate for [...]

Summer's here!

Yes, when she’s not parading hungry friends through the house, coming in to my office with up-to-the-minute alerts on the life-and-death urgency attendant upon me enrolling her in breakdancing lessons (“EVERYONE knows how to breakdance, mom! EVERYONE BUT ME!”), or coming up with meticulously hand-drawn, color-coded, shockingly usurious price-tables meant to be applied to [...]

State of the Cat

As expected, daughter has taken the young stray under her wing and is spoiling him rotten. I have told her she can’t let him loose in the house until we’ve gotten him really checked out, but he can come inside in the carrier. So she carried him around with her in the house all [...]

Bragging on daughter

We interrupt this blog for some intensive and focused bragging on my daughter, who’s been having a bang-up year so far, as evinced by the following:

1) She made honor roll this term, for the first time in her whole elementary school career.

2) She achieved a “self manager” badge, which is actually surprisingly [...]

Tomorrow, Tillamook

The family and I are driving to Tillamook tomorrow morning on important business, namely buying more shingles for this shed project at a deep deep discount.  You may be wondering why I’m still awake at 1 a.m. when I need to hit the road at 7 a.m. Well, it’s because daughter stayed up until [...]