This is a service flag. I have one hanging in a window of my house. This tradition began during World War II, when family members would hang placards or banners with blue stars in the window. Each star represented a loved one serving in the war. Later, they became sanctioned by the Department of Defense […]

Yesterday went from screaming-in-your-ear bad to broken-lamp bad to teething-pain bad. When I posted yesterday morning, after our DSL outage, it was early morning and while Baby Boy had nursed, he was getting ready for his “real” breakfast of oatmeal and peaches. And the Munchkin was, quite literally, screaming into my ear, chanting “I want […]

Or, reason #801 why Verizon is lousy sometimes. While I was writing my post for the blog last night, our total DSL connection decided to go kaput. After about an hour of the Webmaster testing our firewall and our server and even our modem to make sure the problem wasn’t on our end, he went […]

This weekend seemed extremely short. I think it’s because I actually had things to do besides the usual weekend housework and laundry. I still did 3 loads of laundry (including washing Baby Boy’s stuffed lion, because he was kind of crusty around the face with carrot urp). I should have gotten out in the yard […]