Happy 10th Birthday, Brooke

She’s gotten to this age where she’s fun to hang out with. We watch American Idol together and paint our nails and talk about clothes and make jokes about Daddy’s burps and farts. She’s convinced she’s going to be a wrestler or a boxer, a firefighter, a cop ,a paramedic or a model when she grows up and shows off her moves to anyone who will watch (and if no one will, the mirror will suffice)
In ten or eleven more years she'll be going off to college. Ten years is not that long of a time. We're given only but a dozen years with our kids before they become teens, and start to pull away, and it's so easy to take those years for granted. I do not. I love you baby!!!

Worst Campus Shooting In U.S. History

This afternoon I watched the coverage of the horrific Virginia Tech shootings in which 33 people lost their lives. Students bitterly complained that there were no public-address announcements on campus after the first burst of gunfire. Many said the first word they received from the university was an e-mail more than two hours into the rampage — around the time the gunman struck again.
Virginia Tech President Charles Steger said authorities believed that the shooting at the dorm was a domestic dispute and mistakenly thought the gunman had fled the campus. "We had no reason to suspect any other incident was going to occur," he said.
Why were such assumptions made.....are we becoming immune to such horrorific acts of violence?
As always, we will learn more in the days following tragedies such as these.

Brookes Turns 10 This Wednesday

Today friends and family celebrated the day you started becoming you.
The day you began your journey. Your beautiful blue eyes now tell a story.
Of how you are,
a loving daughter,
a playful cousin,
a loyal friend and an enthusiastic student.
You are respected and loved
You are far from perfect, but closer than most.
Day in and day out, you touch lives and warm hearts.
With every new year you out do your last.
This one will be no exception.

An Afternoon Conversation With Alley

I always look foward to picking up my girls from school to hear them share the highlights of their day. This is what Alley had to say today on the drive home.

Alley : Mom, today we played a game. It was fun.

Mom : Oh yeah, what was it?

Alley: Some people hid and we had to build swords and all the good people got tied up.

Mom: Were you one of the good people?

Alley : Of course and Matthew B cameand told me while we were hiding that he loved me.

Mom : What did you say?

Alley: Cool.

Scams Of Carnival Games

If you go to the carnival or fair you can always get taken for a ride......whether it is the rollarcoaster or merry go round or the games along the midway.

The cans are stacked against you.

I worked for Conklin one summer and the dart booth is where I worked and let me confirm........no one won.

Look What I Made Today

Strawberry Swirl Cake.......Not too shabby if I say so myself.

My Hollywood Crushes When I Was A Kid

Who inspired the posters that adorned your childhood bedroom? Fess up and post your answers.

1.) Andy Gibb.......oh how I loved when he sang, "I just want to be your everything"

2.) I loved Shaun Cassidy and I remember the summer we went to Calinfornia my favorite purchase was a shirt with his picture on it.

3.) I used to love watching eight is enough. I had a huge poster of him on my bedroom door when we lived in Alberta.

4.) Rex Smith from the movie "Sooner or later."I watched that movie and fell in love...... I saw him a few years back in the broadway musical of Grease at the Hummingbird. I had lost my loving feeling.