Now that two of my three girls have posted here, I must whoop and holler just a little. Just to clarify: Bekah is my older daughter, Rachel, who also goes as Lizziejanks because her middle name is Elizabeth and her last name is Jankovic, is my second daughter, and Heatherlinn is my one-and-only daughter-in-law, […]

So, imagine my surprise. I find a moment in a day, a brief lull in the storm, and I sit down to check my mother-in-law’s blog—maybe the new format is up.
The new format is up. And so is something else. An announcement of sorts. Apparently I’ve been made part owner of this thing. Hmm, I […]

Sometime when I was in early high school my Mom and I started yard-saling together. I don’t really remember why we started, maybe someone needed a dresser, maybe it just sounded fun, I don’t know. But what I quickly discovered was that the fun of yard-saling is in finding things that […]

It seems to me that the mother-in-law has gotten pretty bad press. We are already behind the eight ball before we even begin, so we had better get a few ducks in a row so we can overcome all the stereotypes of the horrid mother-in-law. I still remember the chorus to some song in the […]

Not much happened today. Ha! My daughter’s family got off in the early a.m. to drive to Seattle and then fly to London. Every piece of luggage (all fourteen action pacs) made it through the check-in without having to be rearranged due to weight. (Glory!) And they made it through security with their five children […]