Laughing at Chaos

If you make ham and bean soup in the crockpot and let it sit in the sink and soak, after a couple of days, it starts to smell like someone pooped in the kitchen. Just sayin’.

Pleasure for an hour, a bottle of wine; pleasure for a year, marriage; pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. — Chinese saying

I grew up outside of Chicago, heading down to Chinatown with my family at least once a month. Dim sum…YUM! The family of a dear friend had a Chinese restaurant in my hometown and I ate there frequently. My dad …

So I took a peek at my stats over the last couple of weeks, and holy heck, the chart looks like the Dow Jones over the last several months. So I checked my last post…and there hasn’t been a whole …

Tom’s brother, Gary, has been researching their family tree. It has branches upon branches that surprise us. Tom is not only distantly related to the Current Occupant, but the Current Vice-Occupant as well. Ewww… The only bright side is that …

So…does anyone have any great tips for getting paint out of carpet? Dried paint? Other than ripping up that builder-grade crap and laying down laminate wood flooring? Why, you ask? Because we survived the Casa de Chaos Annual Memorial Day …

I saw this news story today and was insulted they took my idea! I’ve threatened to put  A on eBay since birth. Um, daily. When he was younger it may have been hourly. I can’t remember, those days stole my …

Momumo tagged me for my reading material: Here are the rules: 1. Pick up the nearest book. 2. Open to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the next three sentences. 5. Tag five people and post a …

I suppose I should have mentioned yesterday that we’re all fine here. The storms and tornadoes were all north of here and missed us. We had a bit of rain and hail and that’s it. Pure luck. A is still …

When Tom was 12 his house was destroyed by a tornado. He, his younger siblings, and his mom were in the basement at the time. He’s not a fan of bad storms. Neither am I. My first year teaching I …