The Personal Blog of a Gen X Mom.
This past Saturday, E.B. and I headed out the door bright and early to attend our town’s annual Octoberfest, which is basically an arts and crafts festival and BBQ competition all rolled into one. It’s a good time because a lot of people come View Post
Wow! I can’t believe it’s October! I remember when the new year rolled around like it was yesterday, and here we are. I can always tell when it’s that time of year just by the smells in our little Mississippi Delta town. The farmers start View Post
E.B. has a new after school activity. In an effort to keep him active this fall and winter, I signed him up for swimming lessons. When he started getting really brave in the bathtub by holding his breath and going underwater (without holding his View Post
Talk about hazardous working conditions! It sure makes it hard for me to get my work done with this staring me in the face each time I begin to type. I discovered this stupid warning label on the keyboard of my computer at work. I keep forgetting View Post
I’ve been waiting to share this bit of information until I was settled in and the contract had been signed. I have gone back to work full time and I am the proud new librarian of a great little elementary school here in the Mississippi View Post
On Sunday I started going through and organizing the teaching stuff I used in the past and came across a sad bag of old, broken crayons. I had run across several clever blog posts online about recycling broken crayons instead of throwing them away. View Post
E.B. earned his first allowance last week from my mother. Mom’s back has been giving her trouble, so E.B. has been “helping” her pick up things around her home and be an extra set of hands and feet for her. He did this all week not expecting a View Post
kindle Since downloading the Kindle to my Windows phone and home computer, I've found a lot of places on the internet that list Kindle books free and cheap, but I don't have hours to thoroughly look over these websites to find what interests me. View Post
Obscene amounts of ice cream are being consumed in our house this summer. We occasionally buy from the local ice cream truck, however, that truck doesn’t even compare to some of the amazing ice cream trucks I’ve run across on the web. A View Post
We've reached that point during the summer in the Mississippi Delta where it's unmercifully hot. 100 degrees in the shade at 6 PM and the heat index is anywhere from 105-115 degrees. All you can do on those kinds of days is stay indoors, stay cool, View Post
