Desperately Seeking Sanity

Welcome to my search for sanity…You may want to subscribe to my RSS feed if you’re in for the occasional laugh or moving moment. Thanks for visiting and I hope to “see” you back here soon! HeatherToday, you graduate from elementary school. I have mixed emotions about this and it’s been no secret [...]

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Tonight, we played our last softball game of the regular season. It’s done. Finished.
And I?
Survived.
I have mixed emotions about it. Part of me is excited that I can now have my nights and weekends back but the other part of me is going to miss these girls. Miss the game. [...]

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Or Emeril… or Julia Childs… or whoever that dude is on Hell’s Kitchen…
I WANT to be, but I fall very short.
I’ve done a few things about it, but I’m still not a good cook.
Yes, I’ve had some successes. Few. And they come when it’s important in my life, like cooking a meal for [...]

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This is my 600th post and what better way to celebrate than by documenting how I apply makeup for the sole purpose of entertainment… and to possibly win a prize.
What I won’t do to win a prize…
But the gals over at Chic Critique are hosting a “blog your face” carnival so if you want to [...]

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Until next time…
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Being a youth leader affords me the opportunity of being a kid… alot.  I get to let my hair down, act stupid, and get away with it.  The beauty of it is those aged 12-18 think that I’m cool whereas doing stuff like that at the office?  Not so much.  (And I do it at [...]

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The science fair is done. Awards were given today and tonight, we parents can go and ooh and aah over our children’s projects, bring them home and then find a time when the kids won’t notice to trash them because they are taking up space.
(You do that too, don’t you? Surely you don’t [...]

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In a house…
on a street…
right here in the Star City of the South as it is affectionately known.
Why, yes… of course I’m talking about Roanoke, VA.
Heard of it before?
Most people haven’t. It’s tucked away in the Blue Ridge Mountains, along the Blue Ridge Parkway… and the Appalachian Trail? You’ve heard of all of [...]

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In Roanoke, Virginia’s war on good parenting, the worst crankiest criminal offenders kids are pursued by the detectives of the Mom Squad. These are their stories.
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Monday, April 28, 2008
3:34pm
Jacobson Residence
Me: Samara, I’m moving your bedtime back 30 minutes.
Samara: Why?
Me: Because on at least 3 occasions in the last week you’ve fallen [...]

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I would like to report that I came home victorious yesterday, having just logged my first win of the season.
I did not.
I would like to say everything ran like clockwork.
It did not.
I would like to say that I appeared to know what I was doing on that field full of 22 girls and many parents, [...]

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