After the surfing lesson last week, the boys decided to tone it down a bit with a little skimboarding. You know? Some harmless fun, right? Well, let’s see how that went.

Here is Kyle explaining the basics of skimboarding; the running, the dropping of the board, the jumping on the board and the [...]

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**I actually wrote this yesterday, but I was having so much trouble with my external hard drive and my memory card reader that I couldn’t actually publish anything. Anyway. . . .**
What a fabulous weekend!
First, I finally got some sleep. Folks, I had been running on virtually ZERO sleep for the [...]

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Hello lounge chair, my old friend! It’s SO good to see you once again.

I was singing cuz I was so giddy to see my pool open and the sun shining! Wheee! It was a glorious weekend! I was in my element. My little slice of heaven.
The pool opened at noon [...]

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I think it’s safe to say that we can finally declare the holidays officially over. A new year has begun along with what a lot of people refer to as a ‘fresh start’. New Year’s resolutions abound.
Now I don’t typically make New Year’s resolutions because. . . well. . . I KNOW that [...]

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How does that happen?
The weekend sure did fly by! I stayed at a steady pace the whole time, yet I still didn’t come close to finishing everything I needed/wanted to do. I’ve had paint downstairs for weeks ready to paint the bedroom, but we keep having super nice weather every weekend dangit! [...]

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I was over at Dad Gone Mad’s site last night and he had several interesting questions posed that caught my attention. They ranged from your level of happiness to what really pisses you off to what would you do with $10 billion to who your favorite artist is to . . . . FOOD. [...]

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I feel like we ought to key some music for The Last Day of Summer, but I don’t really feel like cheering. It’s bad enough that my community pool closed three weeks ago, but now Summer is officially over. Well. . . in some parts of the country, it’s over. There’s a [...]

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Monday, September 1, 2008, Labor Day was an absolutely beautiful day!  I made a fabulous lunch for the boys and my mom, cleaned up the kitchen and hit the pool.  It was a great day for the pool, not a cloud in sight.
I don’t know these people, but they came and grilled out and were having a blast.  [...]

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Who knew?
I have never been one of those girls that went all weak in the knees over a celebrity, a musician, or an athlete.  Nope – not even Tom Selleck got me excited back in his Magnum PI days or John Travolta either while he strutted his stuff in Grease. 

I’ve just always been of the mindset [...]

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I’ve received this a few times from friends who know how much I love to make chili.  They knew that I would enjoy this.  It is truly hysterical.  Please take the time to read this slowly. If you pay attention to the first two judges, the reaction of the third is even better. For those of you who have [...]

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