According to a People Exclusive written by Alicia Dennis:  “Having 19 kids – and willing to welcome more – isn’t just a Duggar thing any more.” The article talks about the Bates Family — Gil and Kelly and their 19 kids. While I admire a woman who can raise that many kids, I’m definitely not [...]

I woke up early this morning and decided that today would be the day I would find a solution to the pitiful state of the economy, bring about world peace and discover a cure for male pattern baldness. But I didn’t have any clean underwear so I had to do the laundry instead. So yeah, [...]

Apparently I’ve been dead for nearly six months and nobody even told me. I’m kidding. I’m not dead. Actually I’ve been suffering with a severe bout of depression and a general feeling of “life-is-a-pile-of-crap-syndrome” for the past few months. And also I have developed tendinitis in my shoulder from constantly flipping  pages on the calendar. [...]

Wait, what?? Yes, you heard right; We have a new kitten. Another one. I didn’t mean for it to happen. I swear, it wasn’t my fault. Blame the granddaughter for this one. Well, her and my inability to turn away a little orphan kitty all dirty, flea-ridden, hungry and scared. We could have taken it [...]

**back by popular demand — a post from the past. If you’ve read this before, feel free to skip over it. I’ll never know. I do wish all the dads a Happy Father’s Day. ** My father called me Leona. I called him collect a couple of times after I got older but he refused [...]

So, since my foot has brought us closer together and we’re now bosom buddies and all, I thought I’d give you the complete package. No, not that package! This one:   Oh? And most of y’all probably already know that Wayne owns a contracting business? Well, on Thursday, he came home and he was kinda [...]

I’ve been thinking about my blog lately and I’ve decided to make some changes. The reason for these changes is because I’ve been reading a lot of  ”mommy blogs” lately and I’ve noticed that the ones I keep going back to are the ones where the blogger gets intimate with her readers. (and no not [...]

Spring has finally returned to our neck of the woods. I love spring time. I look forward to it more with each passing year. I usually start counting down the days right after Christmas; winter doesn’t seem that long if you do it that way. Yesterday the temperatures were in the mid-seventies, so I decided [...]

I hope all of you mothers had a great Mother’s Day. Mine was good. I got cards, cash, clothes and flowers from my two sweet children. I love cards. They are my favorite things. I save every one I get. I have cards that date back 30 years or more. (I’m not a hoarder. Well [...]