Snootyvixen

She’s gone to Chicago. Left this morning in a better mood than normal (but only because she wanted to borrow my headphones.) Nugget loves band. She plays trumpet, and does so very well, if I do say so myself! This opportunity came up a while ago though school, and – thanks to a partial scholarship [...]

My next level. The beginning of another year has passed, and with it, all the promises of change, betterment, resolutions … you know how it goes! I think that every day I resolve to author a blog post, and every day I think “I’ll have to get to it tomorrow” – and my world has [...]

… get away. Get a good job with more pay and you’re OK. Those are the words, but that’s not the subject of this post – though it could be very soon. (shhh, it’s a secret … for now!) I’ve been both lauded and criticized for my method of doling out allowances to my two [...]

We’re not really a jam eating family, but with my latest foray into preserving, I watch the store circulars like a hawk, waiting for great sales on produce.Yes, I know I’m at the wrong end of the season, but when the mood strikes … So, when Aldi advertised pineapple at .99c a pound, I knew [...]

“Did you notice, Mom? Did you notice I’m wearing all pink?” To be honest, I hadn’t, and responded with a surprised tone, I guess. “No, I hadn’t noticed! It looks nice though” – and smiled the approving mommy smile. She was so happy to tell me that one friend had texted another, who passed the [...]

It’s getting harder and harder as the months go by, and I do my best to take things in my stride and not complain. This month I was really stretching to make it to the end of the month. My food stamps have been reduced because I am being paid for 4 hours of work [...]

Tweens speak a different language. It’s called “innuendo” – which means I’ll give you the least amount of words I can to say what I want to say and if you don’t figure out what I mean then I’ll just be pissed at you for the rest of the day”. It happens on a daily [...]

Well, as predicted by many of you, Paris did way better at camp than I did at home! I picked her up yesterday and she had a ball! Didn’t want to come home, wanted to stay another week, and made many new friends. Of course, I got lots of “I missed you” hugs, and the [...]

The whole school has had an assignment this year. The theme was “Everyone Has a Story”, and different classes too different approaches to writing a book. Paris’s class was to write about the topic of “Heroes”. The school held an “Everyone Has a Story” night, where parents could come and read all the books, it [...]

This post has been going around and around in my mind tonight. To the point where I just had to get online and write. Since their father moved to Oklahoma two years ago, my girls haven’t really had an authoritative male figure in their short lives. Of course there’s Grandpa, but Grandpa has to be [...]