Camp Wig-a-low

This is going to be a dream come true for me.
When we were youth pastors two weeks at camp as a counselor was the highlight of my year!  I loved the cheers, the screaming, stupid games, eating gross food, late night pranks, cheesy songs (can we all hold hands and sing friends are friends forever)….. [...]

England Part 1

It was the less pretty part of the journey.  I stayed up too late packing and it was 3a.m. and we were getting a quick shower before we had to leave Germany for England.
It was terrible and emotional all wrapped in goodness.
We had teary goodbyes and then we were off to start the adventure part [...]

Fun Find…

I found these today at the Compass and they were 1/2 price.  On top of that the store has a buy one get one 50% off coupon.  They had lime green too (these were hot pink) and a variety of styles in the same set.  Perfect mid sized bags for summer camp,  trips to grandma’s [...]

Music Monday: Do Lyrics Matter?

Do the words of a song “make or break” it for you?
absolutely. yes. most def. ya ya.  you said it.  Y-E-S.
I thought that would be my answer until….
Listening to a new favorite I made the misfortunate mistake of saying to honey….
Do you like this song?
To which he replied… it would sound better if I were [...]

A Blog Genius

Check out this blog because this guys is SO cool, and he’s my son so it’s my job to promote his blog.  You can not comment on my blog, but you can’t not comment on my son’s blog cause when your young… that’s NOT cool.  When your old is not cool either but I pretend [...]

Stay Cool Grandma…

When it’s too hot to go outside… create youtube for Grandma!  
Now I really want a digi cam-recorder! 

The kids STOLE my cellie phonie and are creating their own YouTube
It just might be on Smarty Pant’s blog tomm.

My Tube–U Tube

My niece who has lived overseas for the past three years, I’ve missed you for so long, came back to Texas and turned 14!  (see everything really is better in Texas).
It is great to see them all again and know they are only three hours away …as opposed to 14 hours [...]

Family Fun Night

Confession:  Our second family fun night was fun. yes. but equally lame by way of creativity.
Mission accomplished though because we had a great time together.   The simplicity made it beautiful.
We gambled.  Start Young. That’s our motto.  From the time  they were babes we played animal bingo, barney bingo, blues clues bingo and now that [...]

clean up on aisle three

I loath the grocery store.
I have bad memories of shopping with babies and toddlers that have scarred me.
The first time I braved the store as a new mom of 5 days, the baby on aisle 1 in  began to cry the kind of cry ear plugs were made for.  With my cart loaded full and [...]

Take me Out to The Ball Game

This lady I’ve never met  has the coolest ideas for doing theme family nights.
Our family nights needed some spice and direction past candy land so we took the first left and tried out some new ideas while we were on our media fast.  This one being the exception because it involved a baseball game we’ve [...]