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Yes, the news is real…Magic Scraps is coming to an end…but not for a few more months so STOCK UP! Everything is truly a collectors item now 🙂 It’s sad news but when one door closes, another always opens. I have no regrets and am really looking forward to the road ahead. A few months […]

Today was a GOOD day…one of the days where life just makes sense. I worked from home today. The kids behaved. I got a great workout in. Ben got a problem solved on the website. It seemed like every time the phone rang it was someone giving us good news. I stopped by the office […]

Happy belated Memorial Day! The long weekend went by way too fast. It was fun-filled but not too crazy. Friday night, Nolen had an impromptu sleepover with two friends – Garrett & John. Ben took all of the boys and Ella to see Over the Hedge. We’d had some free movie coupons on the fridge […]

Aren’t mohawks a blast? Today was the closing ceremony at Nolen’s school. So much fun! Our awesome principals had a little bet with the 5th graders – they promised to get mohawks if 100% of the kids passed the science TAKS test (the TX standardized test for 3rd – 11th grades). Well, they got so […]

Well, it’s 4 am in Provo, UT and I can’t sleep to save my life. I had some crazy dream about trying to teach with roaches and rats running around our feet and now I can’t seem to get those visions out of my head. Just lovely. Perfect time to update the blog… On Tuesday, […]

Life in general is pretty darn good. I’m excited about the future but having a good time in the present. One of my favorite quotes is by Charles Dickens – “Live in the past, the present & the future.” It even resides as a magnet on my fridge. For me, it’s easiest to live in […]

Okay, I should have known better, but nonetheless… This evening I decided to be domestic. Ben wanted a vegetarian dinner so I decided to be ambitious and make a Greek salad. I didn’t have a recipe but I have eaten my fair share of Greek salads in the past so I felt equipped enough. I […]

Yesterday I came across a couple of designs that I thought were cool. Random design no. 1: The Container Store’s “Glorious Gift Wrap” brochure was mailed to my house and I think this wrapping paper is truly glorious. I love the mostly white look with the spots of color thrown in and the use of […]

Catching up on life. This pretty much sums up what I’ve been doing this month. It’s really been a good thing. Sleep:Ben and I have been working hard on getting to bed say before 2 am, which is huge for us. It’s amazing what 8 hours of sleep can do for a person! We did […]

Less than 18 hours left in Chicago…but we had an AWESOME time! Kate & I are here for CKU and while we totally over-booked ourselves, we still made time for some fun. Tonight was a total highlight for me. We visited this really awesome concept store called Studio D – tons of cool electronics, i-pods, […]