life lesson #3.

Life lesson #3: Always check your pockets before doing laundry. I’ve ruined many or lost many possessions over the years through my failure to follow this life lesson:  watches, earrings, hair pins, checks, money, etc….  BUT, this weekend this life lesson was solidified. On Saturday, Craig and I went to an off-roading event called “Mog […]

moral dilemma.

Walmart. The evil empire. I have successfully avoided shopping there for the past five years (aside from the incident I blogged about where I had to check my morals in order to buy motion sickness pills).  I know they have some cute and incredibly cheap things, but as long as I don’t go in I […]

fill in the blank friday.

This weeks blanks are near and dear to my heart because even though it’s not the popular thing to admit (especially in Portland where everyone touts their love of the written word and their hatred for television via bumper stickers)….I am a lover of TV. There.  I said it.  Apparently Leesh over at The Blarkness […]

happy birthday husband!

Happy birthday husband! I am so very thankful that God has given me such a wonderful, clever, sweet, funny, best friend for a husband.  I cannot imagine my life without you and I feel so very blessed to have gotten to spend the past eight birthdays with you and all the fun memories I’ve gotten […]

my fall must-haves.

Fall always has and probably always will feel for me like a time for reinvention. Every August I am taken back to my school days.  The days of shopping and planning weeks ahead of time exactly what I would be wearing on that pivotal first day of school.  There was always a feeling that I […]

birthday fun.

My birthday was last Thursday and it was fun. Here’s what I did…. Woke up to: -a sweet note -pretty flowers -AND a mocha from the hubs Then I went to the DMV,  because I’m old and needed to renew my license. Depressing. BUT….looking on the bright side it was the quickest DMV trip EVER […]