Last week’s trip & Halloween!

I seem to be unable to handle NaBloPoMo this year – maybe next year!! Pictures of last week’s outing—more soon! Halloween, Ryan at Taco Bell, Colleen & Ashleigh

MISSED the Next Great American Band this week—

http://nextgreatband.msn.com/ I’m bummed. But I will find it online I’m sure. Just couldn’t find it yet tonight. DVR was supposed to tape it, but it messed up. Anyway – the Clark Brothers and Light of Doom are my favorites, but Tres Bien is awesome too! I finally watched last week’s episode tonight and I thought [...]

Decorating almost done – and apparently sickies coming back

I’ll have to post a pic of our tree decs tomorrow (2 strands of lights still not working – i haven’t had time to pursue it really). But got breakable ornaments up out of Harm’s (Ryan’s) way today and Rog bought a new star for the top of the tree that I’ll put on tomorrow. [...]

Christmas meme

Googled for memes and found this one and filled it out – Favorite Christmas… * Non-Jesus-related song? “Jingle Bell Rock” * Jesus-related song? “Mary Did You Know” and the song about the little boy buying his mom a red pair of shoes. * Santa-related song? “Up on the Housetop” * Fictional character? The little blind [...]

Spirit of Christmas

Ryan style I was doing dishes yesterday but Ryan decided THEN was the time to start unpacking all the Christmas boxes I had hidden behind the couch. He also did some of this in the morning yesterday before school – Let’s get all these boxes dumped! Decorating Ryan Style 1 Originally uploaded by criscollrj. What [...]

Clinging

Clinging 1 Originally uploaded by criscollrj. All of the sudden all the leaves are gone. It seemed like a day or so ago we still had tons of leaves on the trees. Now Rog has to leaf-blow for hours!

Google fun (From Sasha’s blog)

http://www.55fun.com/ I am downloading this Acrobat book – looks fun to check out! I love Google. I made an IGoogle page a few months ago and the thing that completely made my day is that I could have Pacman on there (among other fun things like Frogger, Checkers, and Hangman!!). I was addicted to Pacman [...]

The dreams of children

The dreams that we hold about having our children… and the reality given and the new dreams held Dreams of all my life The children we always wished for Years go by like lightning But the expectations soar Wanting perfection Working day and night for our bread Trying to observe each smile, accomplishment, and word [...]

I found this really funny for some reason:

Severe Weather Alert TWC Message 945 PM EST FRI NOV 23 2007 THE LATEST SNOWFALL REPORTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND, OH: EDINBORO, 3.0″… MADISON 5 S, 2.0″… MILLCREEK TWP., 1.3″… YNG AIRPORT, 0.9″… CLE AIRPORT, 0.5″… CAMBRIDGE SPGS, 0.5″… ERIE AIRPORT, 0.5″… NORWALK, 0.2″… ERIE, 0.1″. STAY TUNED TO THE WEATHER CHANNEL [...]

Ed Grimley & the Triangle -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQH41uVbRMs