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COGS

Sooooo, way back in January of 1995, I was in the middle of my 3rd year of college. I’d opted not to play softball for a 3rd season . . . I REALLY wanted to graduate and be finished in 4 years. I was majoring in Accounting. I have no clue what ever possessed me to [...]

Sledding

We had a couple good days of snowfall over break, which was awesome! One of the days, I loaded up the kiddos, some neighborhood friends, the dog, and the sleds and took them sledding. 6 people, 5 sleds, and a 75-pound lab in a Highlander is quite a sight to see! I love this photo [...]

Resolutions

Some people make them, some don’t.
Some people keep them, some don’t.
I made TWO this year.
The first one, Hubby shook his head in agreement when I told him. To be more efficient. I’ve found that since I’ve been working at home, I haven’t been as efficient as I usually am at work. I do the projects [...]

$55

I’m pretty sure all of us would jump at the opportunity to save $55 on something. Last week I tried to do just that.
I had purchased QuickBooks Pro 2012 for our home business at Sam’s Club a couple weeks ago. It was about $174 before tax. I didn’t get around to installing it, and was [...]

The Cat Made Me!

What makes you think that I smudged the paint?

Pros and Cons of Working at Home

In June, Hubby and I decided it was time for me to quit my outside the home paying job and work for our own company at home. In the spirit of full disclosure, the decision may have happened something like this . . .
I get the kids on the bus. I go to work. I [...]

Don’t Be Callin’ Me

So last Friday night, Hubby and Dude took off after school for a weekend Boy Scout campout. As luck (for me!) would have it, Princess got invited to a friend’s house for a sleepover Friday night as well. I may or may not have whooped and hollered (OK not really, but I did smile really [...]

Carving

We got some awesome pumpkins earlier this week (thank for the tip, MS!!!) and took Wednesday night to work our magic on them
Princess wanted to do a dolphin jumping out of water . . . so I made her a stencil for it. Kiddos also wanted the pets to have a pumpkin, so we [...]

Names

When we picked Princess’s name, it was because Hubby really liked it. I liked it, too, and thought there aren’t that many of them out there. The toughest part was figuring out how to spell it . . . not so people would spell it correctly, but so they had a half-ass shot at pronouncing [...]

124 and 147

Approximate ages of Dude and Princess, respectively, when their number for Green Bay Packers season tickets will come up and allow them to purchase  general stadium bowl seats
Dude is currently #45,360 on the list
Princess is currently #55,686 on the list