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Archive for May, 2007

New Hampshire vs. Mrs. Hamscher

Garrett and I were picking out a game from the closet where we keep track of the boys height.  I got to looking that he was so small when we moved here.
I asked, “do you even remember our New Hampshire house?”
G: “yes” (use a lisp when you are saying it)
Me: “what do you remember?”
G: “The [...]

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guilt

so I clicked on my site just in case I felt like writing something and saw that my LV pal must be checking in so I have to update out of guilt.  Otherwise, I’ve been uninterested in the blog.  Mine, not others.
It’s been so busy so here are are mid-May highlights…
We had the 40th anniversary [...]

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too old?

Am I too old to be a bridesmaid?
Is Jeff too old to be an usher?
Are the others in the wedding party going to think of us as the “old couple”?
We’ll show them that even the old folks are fun!!

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new hampshire friend googled here

I noticed someone googled a friend of ours from new hampshire and, since she left a comment once, they were directed here. Let me be the first to tell you that ML is a wonderful person. She is married to a great man, JL and, even though I never met their son AL, [...]

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it’s only money

thankfully it is only money. otherwise, we’d be screwed.
We were doing wonderful. Saving. getting out of debt. all that other good stuff. Here is what has happened in the past month, actually, the past week and a half…
Possibly in need of…
a new roof (roofer is looking and estimating next week)   [...]

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40 years

so, our party for Jeff’s parents was a huge hit. Everyone had fun and it was truly a surprise! In fact, they walked in the place and the guests hollered surprise and Lois still did not know what they were talking about. She said, Luckily Jeff or Scott said happy anniversary.
NOTHING [...]

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busy

we’ve had such a busy May.  It will slow down a little now since we had the big 40th anniversary party last night.  It was such a wonderful time with a wonderful outcome I will have to wait to talk about.  I am getting sleepy again so I’m going to wake Connor up (at midnight) [...]

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why is it?

that every time I want to do my bills at night something is wrong with the system and I have to check back at a later time?  Do they not understand I have a family to take care of during the day?  I want to be doing my bills etc at night when everyone is [...]

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Budgets

We don’t do allowance.  The boys earn a small amount of money periodically.  we usually surprise them.  they never know when it is coming.  sometimes, when we ask them to do something and two out of the three whine and complain we reward the third with 50 cents or a dollar.
We DO teach them about [...]

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help is here

Because I am not doing staff appreciation at school next year, someone has come up to me and asked what it is all about.  After telling her the details, she’s a little less interested but interested enough to go through one of the lunch preparations next week.  Yeah!  So, now I have a sucker friend [...]

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