Just for the Fun of It

A friend emailed me this delightful story: "Ever since I read Power of Now, I have been trying hard to "stay in the moment" and "live in the now."  Maybe too much so. My six-year old daughter had Friday off from school, so we spent a "girls’ day" together.  We went through her closet cleaning…

On a trip to pick up my kids from a friend’s house, I noticed the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile in the parking lot of a local Wal-Mart. It’s hard to miss, even when speeding by at 60 miles per hour. I couldn’t help myself from stopping on the way back home. After pulling into the parking…

It has taken exactly one month since the end of school for the words to come out of my 12-year old son’s mouth.  "I’m bored."  Actually he has said those words before but only when there’s been a lull in the action during a day filled with Nintendo DS, creating armor out out duct tape,…

Pictures from a recent birthday party in the backyard:  Slip ‘n slide, 12-year old boys, and Super Soaker water guns.  Followed by the fascination of what happens to silly putty left to melt on the patio furniture: BTW–It cleans up alot easier than one might think.

Last year about this time, I blogged about my problem with rabbits in my backyard. The rabbits seemed to have moved to the front yard and while they are a nuisance, I see them more in my neighbor’s yard than mine. I’m not the only one that thinks rabbits are a nuisance. People are Googling…