Wine Please

When the baby is screaming and the toddler is shaving the cat: Wine Please

Standing Up 2 Cancer

| September 5, 2008

I think we’re all familiar with cancer. Too familiar. I have yet to meet someone that wasn’t touched by cancer. My first experience was when my best friend, Becky, was diagnosed with leukemia while we were still in elementary school. I remember she couldn’t come out to play, how thin she got, how sick she [...]

Updates and Addendums

| June 26, 2008

Cooper came home yesterday with a low-grade fever. He seemed alright, if a little fussy. His cold seemed to have taken a turn for the worse because he was coughing more, his nose was running more, and he had goop coming from his eyes. Not pretty. Around 3am-ish, he got up crying and was sitting [...]

Floods

| June 24, 2008

I know you are probably tired of hearing me go on and on about this, but it’s important and I feel it’s worth repeating a hundred times. Folks out in the Midwest who were affected by the catastrophic flooding are in dire straights. Many were told that since their town was protected by levees rated [...]

Silent Auctions–NEW LOWER STARTING BIDS!

| June 19, 2008

Here are the Silent Auctions to benefit the Mid-West flood victims. To bid on a silent auction, put a comment indicating the picture number and your bid amount…such that if you were bidding on the first item, the gold palm tree necklace, you’d put “auction #1, $22.00″. All starting bids are below the retail value, [...]

Your Help Needed

| June 18, 2008

Please look here, here, here, and here. Then please look here to help. And if you need very specific help and information…here are sites from Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Missouri. Then…look below. It has nothing to do with needing your help, but it is awful cute (shirt courtesy of Karen at The Rocking Pony; good [...]