Here’s a fun conversation I had with Ping tonight:

Me – “Hey will you sing me a song?”

Ping – “Okay, Goodbye, Goodnight.”  (Half sung, half spoken, and in no decipherable tune.)

Me (laughing) – “What was that?”

Ping – “You know, that Van De Kamp song.”

Me – “The Van De Kamp song?”  Visions of fish stick commercials are [...]

Since it looks like this outside:

I dressed the girls up like this:

And made them go outside so they could do this:

Sydney is laughing because she tried to throw a snowball at me, but it went up instead of forward, and landed on her own head.

Skyler is gathering snow for gramma to eat.  Sometimes gramma gets [...]

A little over a week ago, we switched Skyler to a big girl bed.  I decided it would be best to get her introduced to it before we switched Sydney.  Although, since we switched Skyler, we’ve noticed that Sydney has no desire for a big girl bed.  I ask her if she wants one and [...]

In homage to a favorite blog of ours, oopsicraftmypants.net, Kendra and I decided to try a project of our own last night.  To prepare, I went to Cheers and got some frozen margaritas.  Oh, and I also went to Hobby Lobby.  We spent forever picking tons of different scrapbook papers that perfectly reflected our personalities. [...]

My creativity level today is fairly low, and my time is limited because of two crazy kids and some work I’m doing, so I’m just going to unload everything in my head really quick.

A.  I’m exhausted.  Ping gets up EVERY DAY at 4:00 am, or earlier, and works a long day, then comes home and [...]

Today was bright, beautiful, and only a little bit chilly, so we took the opportunity to have a good old-fashined barn -raising.  Except the barn was a swingset.  Those things are a lot of work!  I think an old-fashioned barn might be much easier.  However, we made short work of it.   And by we, [...]

In honor of both penguins and my husband, The Penguin, on National Penguin Day, here is a shout out to flightless birds everywhere!  I love you because:

You love your babies

You’re gorgeous

You’re also, funny, kind, reasonable, a hard worker, honest, and a great husband.  Tomorrow I might remind you that the toilet [...]

I’m linking to Random Seven on This Is Reverb.

1.  I love making chicken fried rice.  It’s so stinking good and so stinking easy.  Plus, homemade tastes a million times better than take-out, based purely on the fact that the ingredients taste fresh.  The yummy flavor is exactly the same!  It’s also freezable.  Look for the [...]