There are times that the Hubs truly amazes me.  I spend far more time taking care of the kids due to the nature of his job so I naturally always think "Mama knows best."  There are those times, however, when he drops pearls of wisdom that make me stare at him in shock.  You see, the Mister isn't exactly the nurturing type.  He's very manly and does manly things like lift … [Read more...]

The last two work weeks flew by. Oddly enough, the time it took for me to work out my notice were the fastest weeks ever! I felt like I had so much to do and not enough time to do it. My friends and coworkers were baffled by the amount of work I set out to finish before leaving my job. I decided to finish writing yearly reviews for each of my 23 employees. I delivered 21 of … [Read more...]

It's been 13 months since I last ran a 5k and at least three months since I last ran at all. But last night I committed to running the arthritis foundation's jingle bell run--by committed I mean that I announced it to all my Facebook friends.  I have never been one to count facebook friends until I started this blog.  That is when I realized I had 400 of them.   So I told 400 … [Read more...]

Yesterday the Princess was feeling well enough to go to daycare so I returned to work.  It was a long day, made longer by the flashy heels I was wearing and refused to change out of....and made even longer by the realization that it was full dark by 5:45 p.m.! As usual, the first thing I did after getting home was turned on the Keurig and made myself a nice cup of energy.  Then … [Read more...]