Do you know how to keep friends, how to stay in each others lives? I know many people who have friends they've known since grade school. I am one of those people who still only talks to 2 people from high school, oh I am "friends" with a bunch of people from high school via facebook, but the true meaning of friends I have 1, and my husband. As far as since high school the numbers aren't much bigger, my days at IHOP which I worked at for at least 6 years I speak to maybe 4 or

I am looking to find a job again. It's not the easiest thing to do for the schedule I need. It would be great if I could find a stay at home job, or a job that allows my to have complete control of my schedule but those types of jobs also usually need some type of college degree, or is a pyramid scheme and I am not up for either of those options. I did get a call from the Census asking if I would be interested in working again and I think I could make it work, it would just b

I finally got to do it! I got to go into Chicago and immerse myself in Van Gogh's Immersive art exhibit. I didn't really have a good idea what that really entailed but since he has been an artist I have loved for as long as I could remember I really didn't want to miss it. I told Dan about it and he got me VIP tickets for Christmas, that meant waiting almost 2 months to actually enjoy it. Then the night before as has been normal this winter it snowed a lot of inches. Roads w

Woke up today and started with breakfast, then cleaning the kitchen, neither of those things are on my favorite to do list but it is satisfying to look around and see nothing but clean and empty space instead of clutter. Dan was working downstairs so I took my laptop and headed down so we could hang out and work together. I logged on and immediately a thought came to mind, cooking videos. It seems maybe a little strange I have never really thought about me doing cooking video

Brianna and Alex have officially finished their first week of going into school. They only go 2 days a week, but that's still one more step closer to everyday, one more step closer to all the girls getting to do what they always did. Alex was so excited to go in, to see her teacher face to face, to have conversations with her classmates, to do gym class in the school gym and eat lunch in the lunchroom. Brianna was nervous about who would be in her classes, who would be in her

Hello again! It's been a little while and I am so excited to write about National Girls and women in sports day. It does seem like there is a random day for everything but this one important. It's important to my daughters, it's important to me, it's important to so many girls and women in our world. To see the strong women who have come before, to remember what every single one of them went through to get to see a day made to recognize them and their accomplishments. In a wo

Living in Northern Illinois you are bound to get some snow, last winter we had maybe 2 snow falls that needed to be shoveled. Not a lot of chances for the babies to play in snow, and we had all the stuff ready for them too. This year we've had a couple snowfalls that allowed the babies to go out and enjoy the snow fun. We also went outside to enjoy a snow fire and show them how to make snowballs and snowmen. This weekend Saturday I bought tickets to go see the Croods 2, the w