Adventures in Babysitting My Own Kids, 24 hours a day, forever
Posted in Reviews, Things I Like on Apr 7th, 2007
Yesterday I read The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, our book club book for the month. It only took about five hours of uninterrupted reading (the kids took some long naps) and it was definitely worthwhile.
The premise is that an old man dies thinking that he wasted his life and that he [...]
Posted in Home, Orem Restaurants, Reviews, Things I Like on Apr 7th, 2007
Last night for our date we went to the Spring Home Show because a neighbor gave us free tickets. We had a good time, although we had to say "no" to a lot of people. There were at least two people who wanted us to pay our mortgage off their way (which they claimed meant [...]
Posted in Home, Religion/Church on Apr 6th, 2007
Okay, we ended up singing "Do as I'm Doing" and "I'm All Made of Hinges." We didn't color eggs because it was too late and the kids needed to go to bed, but we'll do that later in the week and it'll be fun. We did do a flannel board lesson with Easter pictures, but [...]
Posted in Home, Reviews, Things I Like on Apr 5th, 2007
Long title, I know, but it's the title of a charming book by Tamara Fackrell I'm re-reading that my mother gave me a couple years ago for Christmas. It's probably best suited for mothers of children 2- to 8-years-old, but I think it would be useful for any mother or potential mother. It comes with tons [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 5th, 2007
I just put up an eBay auction, the first I've ever done all by myself. It's for Season Two of the Family Guy TV show, which show I didn't like. It was pretty easy to put up the listing, and cost me less than a dollar so far, so I'm pretty happy. I had some [...]
Posted in Religion/Church on Apr 5th, 2007
I think that it would be cool if for Sunday School or Relief Society or something someone would/could teach an Easter-as-related-to-Passover lesson. Of course, this may seem strange to some of you, but the Passover celebration is closely tied to everything we commemorate at Easter. As Christians, we believe that everything involved in Passover was [...]
Posted in Home on Apr 4th, 2007
I just saw that someone found my site by searching for Mother's Day breakfast ideas. but as I haven't written on the topic they were probably disappointed. It's a fun idea for something to write about, though, so here are some ideas for easy breakfasts kids (and Dads) can do for Mother's Day.
Do breakfast in bed if [...]
Posted in Home on Apr 4th, 2007
A friend of mine gave me one of those miniature rose plants (the kind you get at the grocery store that has the pretty plastic wrapper around the pot) a while ago and about a week later it started having issues. I put it in my kitchen window above my sink because it looked so cheerful [...]
Posted in Home, Reviews, Things I Like on Apr 3rd, 2007
Tonight I made an easy dinner. Ever since my parents started training us to cook by assigning each kid a day of the week to make dinner I've been searching for easy, healthy dinners (most of my nights to cook in high school were spaghetti, garlic bread, frozen broccoli, and green salad with ranch dressing). [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 2nd, 2007
When she said, "write something like a man," my reflex was to tease the Borgesian zeugma of her phrase, because "like" is the most loaded word in there. Go read that "circular ruins" short story if you weren't freaked out by that last sentence. I'm Colin, and I'm guest-posting because… because I'm bored and I [...]