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About this time every year, I find myself disgruntled. My disgruntlement is always a direct result of a brand new school year and all the old feelings it stirs in me.

Tuesday was the first day of school for us.  I home school my children and I always start the day after Labor Day.  Just seems to be the first official day of fall, in my mind at least.

I'm going to come clean about something I take a lot of flak for. I feel like, because my position on this is somewhat different from that of most, people are quick to insert their unwanted views or try and win me over to their way of thinking. But I probably feel more strongly about this one stance, than anything else. I don't feel the need to defend my position. But I do feel the need to explain

I am sure most bloggers have written about Miley Cyrus and I can’t be left out of the conversation.  So here is my two cents.

"Ancay ouyay eakspay igpay atlinay?" I asked my kids one morning this week after catching the tail end of a Phinneas and Ferb episode where they make up their own version of pig latin called "Ferb Latin." It gave me an idea...wouldn't it be hysterical if I first freaked my kids out by speaking only pig latin to them and then pretending nothing unusual was happening... and then,

This past weekend I went with a friend to Austin and left my 6 children in the capable hands of my husband.  My friend and I went to investigate a school she was possibly wanting to attend.   We also went to a couple of restaurants, floated on a river, ate from a food truck and even went for ice cream. We had a good time, and during the time away I trusted my husband and my children to tend to the

So this happened this week: While riding in the car, a Hyundai commercial played on the radio. To which my 6-year-old daughter asked, "Which day of the week is Hyundai? I never heard of it before!"

I have found the gas prices in Amarillo are quite a shock at times.  From one day to another it seems that the two main companies seem to compete but in the wrong direction.  When I travel I find that Amarillo has some of the highest gas prices in the area and sometimes for hours upon hours of driving.  Again this is a shock.  What makes Amarillo have to have such an increase in fuel costs?  Read

We bought some new fly swappers this week. The flies are maddening right now. Thus, the need for additional fly swappers. Seems my kids have a knack for swapping flies and they love to do it. More fly swappers were required to end the feuding over who gets to be the insect executioner.

I saw a commercial where a mom sat in a silent house and said "This is what September sounds like." Yep. It's that time. Teachers and students are getting ready to go back to school. And while September doesn't sound anything like a quiet house to me, I am getting excited to start another school year. With the beginning of a new year in mind, I wanted to share some thoughts from a teache

Monday I went into a business and filled out an application.  That was the first time doing that in over 2 years,  and  boy was it weird.

Now that August has arrived, it's back to back-to-school shopping. When I was a kid, it was all about having the coolest Trapper Keeper. The Trapper Keeper was the iPhone of the 80's preteen. It held folders and paper and it had a clipboard and you could even stuff photos inside the plastic cover. I vividly remember ogling the Lisa Frank designed Trapper Keepers and begging my mom to spend the $5