They say that you can’t blame your parents for your choices. You’re a grown up. You need to take responsibility for your decisions, your actions, your words. It’s fruitless to blame your parents. After all, you are making those choices. Your parents aren’t standing there telling you what to do Hopefully. However, if you look…
July 4th. Independence Day. America's birthday. What were you up to that day? A parade. A BBQ. Fireworks. Work. Did you eat too much, stay up too late, let your kids have too much sugar and almost burn themselves or their siblings with sparklers? My husband's place of employment was in the parade this year,…
It's finally December! Christmas music is everywhere! Do you love it or are you counting down the days until the regular programming is back? Do you have your tree up yet? How do you like to decorate it? Do you do a theme that's the same every year or different every year? My mom and…
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the US and we're gearing up for a feast. We've got checklists for the cleaning and the cooking. I've got table decoration ideas saved on Pinterest. There will be friends and family here. It's going to be quite the day. And then it's time for Christmas music!! But I don't…
There was a Star Wars marathon on TV Memorial Day Weekend—the original ones (Episodes IV-VI). Typically, my Memorial Day Weekend TV watching consists of war movies or John Wayne movies or John Wayne war movies. I needed a change this year. So, I picked fictional space battles instead of non-fiction earth battles. Though “The Longest…
Last week wasn't an easy week. In my last post, I opened up about some of my struggles with depression. And to top all of that off, Sunday the 10th would have been my grandma's 82nd birthday. Thursday the 14th was the day that she passed in 2007. I won't pretend that I'm the only…