Freaky Frugalite

The painting is FIVE HUNDRED years old. People are *still* wrapped up in the Mona Lisa. I was an art major in school. I took art history, art theory, art art art. Overwhelmingly, there was this strange fascination with Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. The adoring attention always baffled me. It’s a very nice painting [...]

Need office supplies like promotional pens, calendars, sticky notes, etc? Or just have a hankering for personalized mousepads, t-shirts, checks, or coffee mugs? My favorite online promotional supply store is Vistaprint. I’ve been doing business with them for over four years now, ever since a young man showed me his business card and told me [...]

Pray for me. *grooooaaaaan*

It’s been raining for a few days now… the kids walk outside for their exercise so they’re not exactly the happiest campers. Still, it’s finally SPRING! Those snow flakes in the air are nothing! They will soon be gone! To cheer them up, I recited that old proverb: April showers bring May flowers. The son [...]

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Kidzmet for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. This is an extremely interesting organization: Kidzmet. You all know how I rail and rant about “cookie cutter” public schools. I attended several of these kinds of schools, and was never happy in them. Typical schools [...]

… not funny. :duncehat:

Tourist season around here starts in another month. Woohoo! My kids have always loved dressing up in Children’s Costumes, even into their teenage years. We are really, really hoping to make it to the Renaissance Fair this summer. There’s a huge festival every year in Sterling, New York. I remember wanting to go, as a [...]

I took the entire afternoon off yesterday. Yep. I did absolutely nothing. It felt really weird. Well, I did rake up a couple of flower beds, but I had the kids do most of the grunt work. I even skipped doing Meet Me in Monday like I usually do! So, I’m actually doing it on [...]

I can’t believe I’m late for this! I honestly totally forgot it was Friday yesterday. I thought yesterday was Saturday. Ugh. It messed up my whole day. Well, better late than never! Here are the prompts for this week: 1. If I don’t _____ in the morning, my day feels off. If I don’t have [...]

Remember that song from Mary Poppins? The penguins sang it: Ohhhh, it’s a jolly ‘oliday with Mary! Mary makes the sunshine bright! I sing it sometimes in a very hoary Cockney accent, to irk my kids. Not that I do it very often, mind you. Did you know that London is hosting the 2012 Olympics?? [...]