Happy 5th Birthday Zachary!!!

In honor of October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, 5 Minutes for Mom is giving away a pink Dyson vacuum! So head on over to and enter!

Isn’t this a beautiful apron?

Today is the first day back to piano after the summer break. I did so enjoy my 5 weeks off. sigh……… Ok, it’s not that bad. It just seems like it. lol About 2 hours out of the house, not counting getting ready time. But hey, it’s only once a week. I’ll get over it….

Abigails Stawberry Shortcake cake. She was REALLY happy with it. The Strawberry Shortcake standing on the cake, was a candle that Abigail wouldn’t let me light. lol So the 6 flowers on the right of the cake are for the candles. 

On Friday, I took the kids to a matinee of The Pacifer. It was really good. There is some violence, blowing up ships and jet skis, beating people up with karate, but my little ones weren’t bothered by it. Their used to seeing people get beat on in karate, and the other violent scenes didn’t…

I have to hurry up and do some posts to move the Narnia quizzes down farther. They are too wide, and causing my side bar to load at the bottom. I hate that! I have Cincinnati style chili cooking on the stove, as well as 10 pounds of chicken leg quarters boiling for the meat…