Moving on in my usual blog style...

Ok, I've had all these great ideas about brilliant things I could write here. And let me tell you, the posts I've written in my head are beyond genius. But since they never make it out of the fortress of my mind, I'm going to stop worrying about being particularly brilliant, or motivating or encouraging. I'm just going to write. 'Cause heaven knows I need a place to journal stuff for the scrapbooking pages that I'll eventually get to.

Bethany has beeen the funniest of late. After seeing her older sister perform in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, she is fond of saying, "Do you want to see my show Joseph?" and twirling about the room like a dervish.

Yesterday, she walked into the dining room and said, "Mom, there's something on my sock..." She picked up her foot and looked at and said, "Oh, rice..." then picked it off and popped it in her mouth. All this in about 10 seconds. There was only time for shock and horror on my part--no time for intereference in the act.

I am...

• a child of God
• a disciple of Christ
• a wife
• a mother
• a homeschool mom
• an employee for Bright Ideas Press
• a writer
• a digital scrapbooker
• a clutter-bug
• visual. I love color, lay-out, visual arts
• a reader
• transplanted to Michigan
• the owner of a historic home
• an interior design dud
• a native of CT
• a lover or seasons--in the weather--in my life
• by nature, or more likely by nurture, a people-pleaser
• one who has difficulty really spilling it--until something just upsets me to the point that I have to speak my mind. Then someone responds/retorts, I feel guilty and am quiet again for...a while
• not planning to publicize this blog--if you find it, it will most likely be because you stumbled upon it.
• planning to use this as a place to let it out. If you don't like it--don't read it. I need someplace to speak my mind and, for better or worse, this is it.
• not sure, really, how well all this will work--my plan to simply speak my mind. But we'll give it a whirl.

Blessings to all!

Stick a Fork In It

This is my first post on this site. I feel it should be momentous, brilliant, inspired. After all, I am a supermom. Only, really, I'm not. I wanted to call my blog something empowering, inspiring, because the last thing I feel like, is a supermom. But hopefully this blog will be a regular reminder that just being a mom to four, homeschooling them and getting up every morning actually falls in the "super" category.

Today was a less-than-super day. Suffice it to say that I was off and running to make cookie-dough solace by 10:30. It actually perfectly defines my day to tell you this--I went this afternoon to get a drink of milk. (I'm not much of a milk drinker, but it is a nice accompaniment to cookie dough.) The milk jug rattled. (I don't think they're supposed to rattle.) I looked in the jug--there's a plastic fork sitting there on the bottom. Enough said! Stick a fork in it--I'm done!!!