This week the guys were much better than the girls.  The guys didn’t have any stand out poor performances like their female counterparts. Katie Stevens started out Tuesday night with a bad rendition of Kelly Clarkson’s hit “Breakaway.”  I think Kara hit the nail on the head when she said there are contestants that know [...]

It’s this time of year when I really feel like American Idol is too much of a good thing.  It’s like when I took the kids to the fair and I sampled a little bit of their hot dog, a bite of the churro, a pull from the cotton candy and then rode the rides.  [...]

Do you ever get the blahs?  Where really, you could just lie on the couch all day and watch tv?  Or if you were really raising the bar you’d read all day, not answer your phone, eat chocolate frosting and drink too much wine?  Naw, that was this weekend, not today.  Oh wait, I’m a [...]

Okay, look…I can’t sing.  Well, I can just not well.  It’s one of those skills/talents that I wish I had.  Like I wish I could draw better.  I wish I was better with numbers.  But I’m not.  What I am good at is helping others strategize and telling people what I think.  That’s why I’m [...]

In spirit today with Read Across America and First Lady Michelle Obama, I thought it would be great to exchange ideas on our favorite kid books.  Parenting.com just published their Best Books to Read With Your Kids today too.  I am an avid reader and one of my favorite things to see my boys do [...]

I’m having some serious tacky TV overload right now – first The Bachelor is close to ending and American Idol is kicking off the live portion of the show. A glass of wine and dumb tv sometimes is the perfect prescription for a day after being home with the kids.  Idol is on tops for [...]

Okay, so I’ve watched every cheesy episode of The Bachelor this season, which I rarely do.  Typically, I just watch the first two or three episodes to get an idea of who the idiot bachelor will be this season and the crazy women who actually sign up for the pain and humiliation.  I am strangely [...]

BigBoy is fanatical. He knows a lot of the lines. He talks about racing day and night. He knows all the cars, numbers of pedals, and all the drivers. He sleeps with the Mach 5 remote control car that he bought with his own money. BigBoy pretends that he’s Speed [...]

My husband is like Archie Bunker sometimes.  He’s often a curmudgeon, grumpy old man and he’s not even 40 yet (NOT that 40 is old! Please don’t get me wrong.).  Sometimes I think we’re polar opposites; he’s not big on socializing, he’s fiscally conservative and he holds his peace until he really has something to [...]

It first caught my eye when a librarian was putting the book back on the shelves.  It was something about that beautiful, warm sunset gold color against a geometric design that reminded me of Frank Llloyd Wright and it echoed the only kind of stained glass that I am fond of.  I just happened to [...]