And We Move Again

by beth August 25, 2010

1999 We had decided it was time to move.  Again. Third time’s the apart­ment charm. And so we began to look around.  This time we were look­ing to move out­side the City.  We were leav­ing Detroit. It was bit­ter­sweet.  I was excited to move. I was tired of the lack of gro­cery stores & strange men […]

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Enter Counting Blocks & Pyramids

by beth August 23, 2010

I saw these at Tar­get yes­ter­day in the $1 sec­tion.  I can’t pass up that sec­tion.  EVER! Some­times I find noth­ing of use there but some­times I find use­ful gems.  I’ve never been so happy to see blocks in my whole life.  Mr. J tends to have a hard time look­ing at the num­bers on […]

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S’mores Cupcake

by beth August 21, 2010

A friend men­tioned you can find com­pa­nies who make spe­cialty items that will ship any­where & I thought hmmm…what about cup­cakes? I love the idea of send­ing cup­cakes, I mean it’s not some­thing you get sur­prised by every day in the mail. And as y’all know I LOVE online brows­ing. So, of course, I set […]

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Pulley Task Table Lamp

by beth August 18, 2010

Again I decided to cat­a­log shop & redec­o­rate the house I don’t live in, you know the fan­tasy house that I would live in if I could.  I thought this Pul­ley Task Table Lamp from Pot­tery Barn looked really neat.  My sons thought it was “SO SUPER COOL!”  That’s an exact quote.  I like that […]

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Started Our Homeschool: Back to School

by beth August 17, 2010

We started school yes­ter­day.  At home.  At the kids request.  They wanted to start NOW.  They appar­ently really like learn­ing, crazy I know. It went really well.  We found a good rhythm.  We did some things in the morn­ing, then we ate our lunch & after had our out­door time in the beau­ti­ful weather that has […]

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