you can drink from the pond?!?!?! and it appears that the pond is mighty tasty! make a great day may joy and innocence prevail! Read more →

Jimmie Johnson, team owner Rick Hendrick and their sponsor, Lowe's, are donating their winnings today to the Red Cross for the fires in California. check out the story HERE!!! in all, there will be about one million dollars donated today! i'd love to see the NFL, MLB or NBA or NHL do the same thing but i haven't seen that... Read more →

and this, my friends, is what Gnimocemoh is! [homecoming spelled backwards] and this is Marian's solution to having homecoming when you don't have a football team! it's great! all the kids dress crazy. Breanna, Hannah, Blaike, Stephanie[not pictured] and Bianca not pictured] all dressed the same. but to make sure that enough of the world saw them in their crazy... Read more →

i had a momentary bit of panic last night i had huge panic attack, accompanied with crying and not being able to go to bed until after 1am, knowing full well that Blaike had to be at school waaaay early today for a meeting for Computers For Africa.....like, we were going to have to leave at 6:55am! anyway, i was... Read more →

if you happen to read THIS, you've seen the really cool Christmas project. and if you've shopped for the ATC Holder and supplies, you know it's hard to come by but i found it HERE. and it seems that shipping $$ is rather reasonable and the shipping time looks to be rather quick. i ordered mine this morning and should... Read more →

World Show 2007 Originally uploaded by kirowyf just trying to learn how to do this...kinda groovy and kinda time for bed! may joy and innocence prevail Read more →

it was Costume Dance night at Marian. guess which one is mine? i love these girls! they have so much fun together. no school last friday so they came over in the afternoon and got ready for the dance together and then came back here for the night. i wish i had more to share tonight but i don't. maybe... Read more →

you know her from Extreme Home Make Over. the show that aired on October 7th, 2007. you cried right along with me and the whole crew from EHMO. you wanted to take away the pain Boey is feeling. you wanted her to be healthy again. you felt that childhood cancer is probably the most horrific thing you have ever heard... Read more →

i want to be like Ree. or at least write like her! this is a must read for me E V E R Y D A Y ! ! ! ! i can't wait to check out her blog every morning. it's what gets me out of bed on those gray and drizzly mornings...not caffeine, not the screaming alarm clock,... Read more →

I'm invisible. It all began to make sense, the blank stares, the lack of response, the way one of the kids will walk into the room while I'm on the phone and ask to be taken to the store. Inside I'm thinking, "Can't you see I'm on the phone?" Obviously not. No one can see if I'm on the phone,... Read more →