It’s almost time: The Three Rivers Arts Festival is just around the corner. Friday, June 7 – Sunday, June 16 12pm-8pm daily 10 days of free art & music for the whole family to enjoy! Did they say free? Yes, FREE!! Visit the Three Rivers Arts Festival website for more information on specific exhibit hours and…
© 2013 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved. We don’t always have time in our house for family outings like I wish we would. Long work hours, school, sports, coaching and simply running a home creates a pretty hectic schedule for us but we do our best to make some family time each…
A friend’s daughter was turning 3 and I thought a baseball bat & ball would be the perfect gift – It’s almost summer, she’s old enough to start learning and it’s a great activity for the family to do together. What I didn’t think of was how to wrap it. I could have put it…
It’s almost time again for the Carmike Summer Kids Series! For the Southland 9 location in Pleasant Hills, PA, the Summer Kids Series will begin on Thursday, June 13th. The cost is $4.00 which includes the movie & a kids tray. The kids tray includes a drink, popcorn and fruit snack. Food, drink and entertainment for…
My mom loves to remind me of this story: When my sister, brother and I were young, we had a swing set in our back yard. Remember those simple metal swing sets that had two swings, a little two person glider swing and a short slide? The ones where you purposely tried to swing super…
This year’s theme for me is “Fix it!” I created a list of projects that I want to be completed by the end of the summer. I’m being realistic, acknowledging I might not get all of them done, but I’m going to try! What I noticed about my list is the number of projects that…
Living within your means. I remember as a kid of the seventies and eighties, in an average working class neighborhood what it meant to live within your means. It was simply the way life was more than a philosophy for combating debt, like it seems to be today. Summer, Winter, Spring or Fall we played…
A small local grocer had fresh broccoli florets on an awesome sale and I couldn’t help but buy it up. But, when I got home I realized that okay, maybe I bought a little too much, so I decided to go ahead and freeze some. But to just toss it in the freezer isn’t good…
I talk about the kids often, mainly because they make me smile. Sometimes though I just stare at them in a state of confusion, with a touch of disbelief and a good helping of humor simply because of the oddball things they do. I went to grab the milk from the fridge to find about…
I think I might take this pic, blow it up and hang it above my desk. That is me, about 16 years ago – sometime before the twins were born. Forgive the quality – it was scanned, text was added via some card making software I had back then, and then printed. I just scanned…
Here’s how it went: Son A wants to go to the court with his friends. He asks me to take him. I’m exhausted and was begging for a quick nap so I ask my husband if he would drive him over. I lay down on sofa though I should have laid down in the garage,…
Two magazines featuring two women who do not appear to be much different in size however one has been labeled as having an eating disorder and the other just has flat abs… So what is it? An eating disorder or healthy living? I guess you have to look like you have an eating disorder to…
Getting a package in this house when everyone is off for the day is like when the lotto numbers are drawn and everyone scrambles to see who won it. Getting a package that contains food or drink is like fighting off a pack of wolves who are going after the steaks you are inadvertently dangling…
