The Stephford Diaries

…the pipes, the pipes are calling.
Oh. Sorry. I might be feeling a wee bit o’ nostalgia tonight. (Also? I might be feeling like I’m Irish even though it’s actually Bill who’s Irish. I’ll get over it.) My son, my very first baby, turned 14 today. The boy is a mere two years away from driving. [...]

Okay, so I had a lovely day today. SarahD, Heather and I took Kaitlyn, Lenna, Kyndall (God, I hope I spelled that right!) and Eli out to a late lunch and then to Build-A-Bear for Kait’s birthday. I took a kazillion and two pictures of our outing which I’ll post (along with details) tomorrow when [...]

As we’re coming to a close on our sentence time in Alabama we’re trying to soak up our favorite things while we’re here.  One of those things being Sonic.  We don’t have them in the Northeast so we’ve been trying to enjoy the food and their 168,000 beverage combinations while we still can.  One of [...]

Oh, we’ve talked about this before, I know. I further know that y’all you, dear readers reader, will tell me that you don’t understand the words you’re reading. It’s okay. What’s important here is that you understand that I have become a complete and total geek.
My laptop was broken. It required disks (discs?) from Gateway [...]

Okay, kids, we have to talk about this WwT thing. We really do. First, to judge by sheer traffic, it’s one of the most popular features on this blog. I’m not one to go much by traffic numbers, but I am one to give the people person who reads this blog what they she wants. [...]

So, Bill was laid off today. I could rant and rave about it, but I’m not terribly upset. Right now, though, we’re still at the start of a decent severage package, and this layoff just confirmed my belief that we’re supposed to go back to Kansas City to be nearer his family. Maybe if he’s [...]

Chicken Cacciatore has always given me visions of slaving away over the stove, cooking chicken for hours, simmering and stirring away on a sauce for ages.  In this image, by the time I sit down to eat, my hair has gone gray and I’ve started wearing one of those button around my neck should I fall and [...]

Okay, I get that we all want our kids to feel good about participating in an activity. I get that we all want our children to feel validated and worthwhile. I want that for my kids just like everyone else does, and I do my best to ensure that they know that they’re valid and [...]

…puppy looooove. Oh, Matt. :sigh: He’s getting phone calls from a girl. Oh, this isn’t his first “girlfriend” — that was a girl named Ashley back in Rock Hill, but she never actually called our house, so I never had to really accept the reality of it. But now, there’s a girl. Calling our house. [...]

So, apparently, I’m a little obsessive. How do I know this, you ask? Okay, you probably aren’t asking that since you know all too well why an online personality test would tell me that I’m obsessive. 12 times it would tell me this. Yes. In trying to make sure that I’m obsessive, I obsessively took [...]