Reclaiming My Inner Pioneer

This is what the boys ate for lunch today. I wasn't sure if they'd eat the cold whole wheat pasta, but since there was ranch dres...

There was a nice editorial in the Trib yesterday. The author of this editorial says that Rep. Glenn Donnelsen who is sponsoring HB224 (to ...

My son wants a bird. A parrot specifically, so that he can teach it to talk. He also asked recently when he would stop being a kid and bec...

I finally saw Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth yesterday. I'll admit that I was not looking forward to it. A movie with Al ...

My Mister (who is wonderful) has been having discussions with his brothers about upcoming vacations. In their family, (off road) motorcyc...

This was in today's deseret morning news.... Proponents of private school vouchers have seized the rhetorical high ground, using terms l...

I haven't bought honeycombs for awhile, although it's one of our "favorite" breakfast cereals. It goes on sale fairly oft...

Here's a quote from a Deseret Morning News article about Governor Huntsman's State of the State speech. (emphasis added by me) T...

A few days ago during lunch, my Mr. told our kids all about the forts that he and his brothers built when they were kids. The 5-year-old...

In the past, to post photos, I have used Photobucket to post pictures on my blog. For the past several months, photobucket has not been wo...

One of my new-year's resolutions was to plan ahead better for meals. The first week, was really good (we ended up with way too many lef...

My Mister took our 5-year-old snowboarding last week. We rented the board the night before, and the 5-year-old spent all evening and the ne...

When my 5-year-old started kindergarten last fall, my Mister and I joined the PTA. We don't actually participate, but we paid our dues....

Today in the mail, we got an advertisement from playboy. Sign up now, free issues! (something like that, I tore it up pretty fast) I am di...

I mentioned a while back that we had had two semi-big financial drains (right before christmas!) hit us, and that I was worried about what t...

A few weeks ago I attempted to make homemade yogurt. The result was a nasty rubber-cement consistency that immediately went in the garbage ...

I've had a couple of experiences lately that have been rather frustrating. It seems that there are many many people in the world who ex...

There was an article in today's paper about children suffocating in their car seats . It's a little scary since car seats are so co...

Yesterday was my ultrasound appointment. So I thought. I scheduled it at least two weeks ago, and was a little disappointed at the time th...

This morning I was giving my 5-year-old a hug and was about knocked over backwards by his breath. It was bad. I told him he'd better g...