So excited. In about six hours, oldest sister and her husband will be here for a visit. Can’t wait to see them! The weather should be really nice for them — 70s early in the week followed by a few 50s and 60s. Much nicer than what they’ve been having in central Wisconsin — teens, a few 20s and even colder. Continue reading
Well, the first week of district games are in the books for daughter’s high school soccer team. Two losses, but we’re staying optimistic. One of the teams played won state last year; I’m told the other was the third-ranked team. So the losses aren’t surprising. And hopefully it means that the team has already faced the best competition, so games should get easier. Continue reading
Chloe keeps a close eye on the food in case I drop – or want to share – my supper.
The Internet has meant a lot of access for parents to information about their children’s day-to-day classroom activities. But is this a good thing?
I think it’s great how much information parents have access to via a computer or smartphone these days. Gone are the days when you have to rely on your kid to tell you he or she is getting/got a bad grade on an assignment or exam. Or be surprised at parent-teacher conferences with the news.
These days, all you have to do is create and sign into an account with the school district on its website. And, voila, at your fingertips, you have access to your student’s grades, their unexcused absences or tardies, meal account balance, etc. Continue reading
To mark my annual mammogram appointment today, I took a picture of my girls. Yep, there they are in the photo above. Continue reading
2015_Day 14: Here’s to working my ass off once again| Daily Prompt
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Connect the Dots.”
Until about six months, I had never been unemployed. I had worked as a journalist for more than 20 years — and loved the fast-paced, never-a-dull-minute lifestyle it offered. But when husband had the chance to take a new job in Austin, Texas, I gave my notice, sold our house, packed up the family and made the trek from Green Bay, Wis., to join him. It was strange, to say the least, not going to work every day. Continue reading
There are a number of things I didn’t bring from Wisconsin because I didn’t think I’d have much use for them in Texas. Snow shovels. Game them to family in Wisconsin. Snow boots. Gave ’em to Goodwill. Door/window draft snakes? Ditto. But as you can hear in the video below (or at http://tinyurl.com/pf9xol8), I should have kept the door snakes. Seems you don’t have to have an old house to have a drafty one. Continue reading
It was 27 degrees this morning (wind chill temperature was 21) when daughter left the house to walk to the bus stop. Do you think she had a coat on?
“Mom, I’ve got a sweatshirt in my bag if I get cold,” she said. “I’ll be fine.”
So tell me again, why exactly is it that teens won’t wear coats? Continue reading
Four months after we moved from Wisconsin to Texas, Chloe finally seems to be comfortable in her new home. (December 2014)
Hats, scarves, gloves, boots and blankets kept us (kind of) warm at Wednesday’s soccer game.
When I first found out that moving to Texas was a possibility, one of the first things I did was a comparison of the average daily temperatures between Wisconsin and the Lone Star State. I liked what I saw. I figured I could live with average daily highs in the 90s June through September if that meant average daily highs December through February were 60. December, January and February average daily highs in Green Bay, Wis., are in the mid- to upper-20s, and the winter of 2013-14 was downright frigid, with average highs and lows 6 to 10 degrees below normal. Winter seemed to stretch on and on and on, and moving to a warmer climate seemed like a pretty good bet. Continue reading
Chocolate Chips and Chaos 