Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 1st, 2009
I don’t know if there are any rules to being a blogger. Today on the front page of the Dallas Morning News was a story about 4 women in Frisco whose blogs have raised some eyebrows. They made fun of other housewives and talked a lot about sex. It sounded to me that they were [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 30th, 2008
Less than 24 hours after the Cowboys got killed by the Eagles, an idiot decided to picket outside Valley Ranch. His sign said the Cowboys did not play with heart and that Coach Phillips is no good—who is he?!
We would not even know about this genius if Bradie James had not taken offense to his picketing in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 20th, 2008
I just finished the book ADHD & me, what i learned from lighting fires at the dinner table. It is written by Blake Taylor, a guy now in college, who writes about his experiences dealing with adhd. It is a great book! I wish this book had been available back when I was trying to navigate the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 13th, 2008
I was just wondering why it is that when your children are young and need a lot of attention –we don’t have much time—but when they are older and you have more time—they don’t need much attention!
We have a new little foster girl and she is adorable. She was requiring a lot of my attention [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 6th, 2008
I haven’t blogged lately because I have discovered Facebook! Now I know why all the kids are always on Facebook—it’s really fascinating! To be honest Wray set me up a Facebook account because a lot of my Zambia friends posted pictures and stuff. Well now I’ve discovered that I can talk to my friends all [...]
Posted in Site News, Uncategorized on Sep 1st, 2008
I know I know I know—it’s been a while since I’ve blogged! My computer was broken last week and my technical guru (Wray) was out of town. He’s got me back up and blogging now!
Just in time to tell you about our little jaunt over to Las Vegas–my first time there. What an incredible place! [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 15th, 2008
Her voice was good enough, but her face was not—are you kidding me? Shame on China for being so caught up in their image, that they negated the self esteem of a 7 year old girl!
The US girls gymnastic team won the silver medal and the headlines of the paper could only talk about the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 12th, 2008
It has been so much fun watching Michael Phelps’ mom as he continues to make Olympic history. You can tell that she is incredibly proud of him – as we all would be. But I don’t know if she is any more proud than I have been when my boys accomplished one of their goals–we [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 26th, 2008
We arrived in Lusaka today! It looks like it’s going to be fun— we’ve already met some more great people. Lauren Osbourne is my roommate again and she is awesome even though she goes to that nasty old LSU! Victoria Falls was awesome-ya’ll will all be wanting to sign up with me next year once [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 22nd, 2008
We have safely made it to Zambia! After two long days of travel, we are at the Royal Livingstone, and it is awesome! There are lots of monkeys, ;one jumped up on my balcony and stole my pen— the people here said they are very naughty! We have met some great people that will be [...]