My Sunday Cup

This afternoon I am drinking from my Sunday cup.  It’s one I haven’t used since before I lived in this house, which means I probably haven’t used it since becoming a mother.  I drank from this cup every Sunday afternoon BC (before children).  Drinking from my Sunday...

To Coupon or Not To Coupon

My family and I journeyed to Tulsa over fall break (by way of Kansas, incidentally, since I failed to navigate one of the more important turns we should have taken in Oklahoma City).  While we were there, every time I used something, my friend Holly told me, “Oh, I...
‘Twas The Night Before School

‘Twas The Night Before School

Tags are trimmed off new clothes and the door lined with shoes.  Packs are stuffed with supplies that have never been used.  Uniforms are laid out with white bobby socks too, and my children are sleeping, I know not what to do.  Should I blog, should I work, should I...

Brimming…

The tears took me by surprise last year when I saw Will off to his first day of kindergarten.  I had so looked forward to having some relief from the constant entertainment I must provide to keep his smart little wheels turning.  I remembered my mom telling me how she...

Life in Southwest Oklahoma

Over five years ago, when we first drove through 30 miles of cotton and wheat fields on our way out to the western prairie to check out our new small town, I wondered where in the world we were going.  We drove pretty far out in the middle of nowhere, when all of a...

Power Hour

While I hadn’t planned on dieting my way into 2009, I did include better housekeeping in my list of New Year’s goals.  I think what I scratched on the scrap paper by my computer was, “Clean Something Every Day.” That scratch paper is as far as I have gotten in...