I am not a morning person. Just this morning I lugged myself out of bed, scrambled down to my desk, reached down to pull my laptop out of it’s back and hit my forehead on the bowl of Halloween candy sitting on my desk. I’m just not fully functional at nine in the morning.
So, I [...]

I’m smack dab in the middle of a very stressful week. Work is kicking my butt. Midterms are next week. My grandpa is having surgery to remove a section of one of his lungs on Monday. And Justis’ grades suck.
Having teenagers makes me want to call my parents every day to apologize. I want to [...]

Today is Keaton’s 13th birthday. He’s finally a teenager.
Thirteen seems to be the start of the big milestone birthdays. Before now a birthday just meant a party with birthday cake and presents. Now it means new privileges. Now that he’s 13 he can sit in the front seat of the car. At 14 he can [...]

The other night Justis set his cell phone alarm for 4:30 in the morning so he could wake up and get on his computer to talk to his girlfriend. 4:30 A.M.! Lee is a really light sleeper so the alarm woke him up. Only he didn’t realize it was the alarm that woke him up [...]