Last year when we had that awful hurricane, I was safely in the Midwest with my daughter. But I was really worried about my house, and I wished that I could see how badly it was being pounded by the storm. I needed a crystal ball. And shortly after that, I stumbled across a bunch [...]

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Even though I really don’t trust hotel safes, it was right there in my room for me to use, and I didn’t. I had my privacy light on. Surely nobody would come in while I was out for the evening. I was wrong. The maid came into my room. And my purse was wide open [...]

I’ll be honest with you. When I saw the trailers for War Horse, I wasn’t interested. It looked to be one of those sweeping epic films, and those very rarely interest me. But now that I’ve seen it, I feel like the trailers are deceiving, and quite frankly, undersell the movie, because it was excellent. [...]

While in New York for the premiere of War Horse, we were lucky enough to be able to spend a little time chatting with Emily Watson, who plays Rose Narracott in the movie. What I especially loved about Emily is that being a mom is her greatest priority, and the special twinkle in her eye [...]

I’ve had quite the adventure with my Kmart holiday shopping this year. First I discovered how to use Kmart layaway, then I created an online layaway account, and now today I’ll tell you how it went when I paid off the contract and picked up my items. I wanted to pay the balance online, but [...]

It’s been nearly 2 years since that punk kid of mine let me put a current pic of him on this blog. But, oh how he melts my heart, absolutely melts it. And he’s working so hard in college while holding down a job, how could I not buy him some things he needs? Yeah….his [...]