Today is June 14th. In my current household, that means that my youngest has a Spanish final this afternoon and doesn’t have to be in to school until then. My 19 year old has his first day of work after completing a 40 hour training course last week. Busy day! In the past, when the… Continue reading Flag Day
I decided this weekend was a good weekend for a road trip. My youngest is away with his father. The only kids at home are adults – 25, 23, 19. I headed to the Finger Lakes for the second time in as many weekends. I went to Watkins Glen back on Memorial Day weekend and… Continue reading Weekend Fun
I have been struggling lately with trying to find my voice as I write. I am not tired of writing. Nor have I run out of things to say. I am just stepping back and wondering about some of the issues I wish to write about now that I am an elected official. I want… Continue reading Trying to Find My Voice
Today seems like a day when service, truly good or fantastic customer service, is on my mind. Why? First, I was going through Facebook to find a friend of a friend commenting on the “service” – and in this case, it was lack thereof – her daughter had received at a college. Second, today is… Continue reading Customer Service – and a Book Recommendation
As I somewhat indicated in my post about blog comments, I have needed to get away a bit. I seldom have time for a vacation during the summer. Plus, what mother would think taking six kids somewhere away from the familiar is a vacation. An adventure, definitely. Relaxing, not usually. Anyway, now that my children… Continue reading Recharging
I love having actual conversations with the people who leave comments on my blog. I have been known to go back to blogs I comment on and continue the discussion with those writers. See a pattern here? I like to discuss, converse about, dissect with others – about almost topic. So I am suddenly looking… Continue reading Comments on a Blog
A week or so ago, I was out on a run. It was just a normal run on one of my normal routes. I have about 15 routes that I run locally near my home. Some are more hilly than others but most are average in elevation changes. As I was starting out, I was… Continue reading The Run
I remember well those days when my children were little, younger than they are now. Currently, my six children are mostly all grown. Four of them are over 21 and the other two are 19 and 15. The challenges now facing me as a parent are very different than they were 20 years ago. I… Continue reading Do Our Children Really Learn from Us?
Winner, winner! Chicken dinner! Oops, wrong place but I do have a winner of the book Delivering Happiness. You should pop right over and read my review but unfortunately, you cannot get the book until June 7th. Anyway, I have a copy to give away and that copy is going to … drum roll please… Continue reading Winner, Winner
This is the last in a series of posts for Momalom.com’s Five for Ten challenge. I said yes last night. So did the voters in my school district. First, my yes. Then, the voters’ yes. My school district has a PTA Council which is a PTA that involves representatives from the four buildings – two… Continue reading I Said Yes
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