I think one of the scariest things to happen to someone that is not savvy in website maintenance is to come back from a long break and find that their website has been taken over by another entity entirely. To get a call from someone that says, “Hey I just by random chance was showing someone your page and it was no longer about country living. It’s about robots and Japanese infomercials!” Well, … [Read more...] about Who Am I Again?
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There’s a lesson there!
Bad stuff happens- to everyone. It’s how you respond to it that demonstrates your character. I’ve never understood why in some situations I get angry, maybe even curse and stomp off to fume in private and in other situations I sigh and calmly try to figure out what the solution is going to entail. It might have something to do with what is in my control and what is not, what my expectation is and … [Read more...] about There’s a lesson there!
5 Things to Organize Now to Move to the Country
Happy New Year!! It’s going to be a great one because I refuse to let anything outside my home get me down! My main purpose of beginning this blog was to share my experiences making the move from the city to the country. When we moved, it was because an opportunity came to us with a financial benefit that we had only dreamed would ever be available to us. We wanted our dream so bad that we … [Read more...] about 5 Things to Organize Now to Move to the Country
5 Things I Must Do Before Noon- Winter Edition
This is the second week of winter vacation and I’m trying to stay on track so that in turn, I can keep my kids on track. I have teenagers and it would be easy to let them stay up all night playing Xbox so that they wake up around 11am but that does not work for the reality of my life. One of my teenagers is on the Autism Spectrum and mornings are when he can wake up to get into mischief. This … [Read more...] about 5 Things I Must Do Before Noon- Winter Edition
How I went from long johns to shorts and back to thermals in 24 hours.
I never relied on the morning news when I lived in Las Vegas like I do now that we moved to Texas. When we made our move, it was a toss-up between Houston and Dallas and I think we made the right move. Houston is heavy with rains from the Gulf of Mexico and an occasional hurricane breezing by. Dallas, it's usually just tornadoes and hail. From the beginning I started to notice that it was … [Read more...] about How I went from long johns to shorts and back to thermals in 24 hours.
