Scott at the Football awards ceremony. The team had a great season, he really enjoyed playing. He learned a lot about dedication and discipline.

A few pics of Scott preparing to go to the Homecoming Dance at his high school. He is a freshman and this was his first high school dance. He had a great time!

The boys recently started back up at school. Here they are on the first day of school, preparing to leave. T-bop is now in 6th grade and S-bop is now in 9th grade. High school! I thought I was prepared having gone through this with I-bop, but it really feels fresh and new with each [...]

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I hang the art work the kids have made at school throughout the house, especially the kitchen. It makes the kitchen so bright and festive. Here are some of the boy bops’ paintings from when they were younger.

We got a new cat, the boys named her Nibbles and I named her Suzy Homemaker. We only had her a few days, I-bop was able to keep her at her new place after putting down a pet deposit so got the last word on the name. She named her Tawny. Then sadly, Tawny passed [...]

I had my daughter when I was 17 and we had hard times, including her see me get beat down by her bio dad many times. She also witnessed me have a postpartum depression breakdown in which I nearly killed her baby brother and I lost custody of him for a while. and then less [...]

We had a lovely 4th of July! Happy Independence Day America

S-bop on his first day of his first job, as an aide to preschool children at Safety Town!

Since my older son is starting high school in the fall I wanted to keep his word skills up during this summer vacation. There are a lot fo good websites out there, I found Vocaboly, it’s a vocabulary software. We’re using the free trial and so far so good. It has more than 12,000 words [...]

One of the things I love about living in a small Ohio town: the parades Brian and the boys and pulled out some chairs to the tree lawn and watched the parade go by and chatted with the neighbors. A friend of mine I hadn’t seen [...]

It really, really was. I spent the day with Brian and the kids, and they made and got me such lovely gifts. T-bop made me another comic, S-bop made me a gag gift, and I-bop got me a Monster tennis ball in my favorite color, pink. Brian got me some new garden tools and a [...]

S-bop is very athletic, in the fall he plays football and in the spring he runs track. We went to a track meet, he was very happy because I-bop came. She is in college and has a job and recently moved out so we don’t get to see her that [...]

I-bop’s birthday is coming up in May, she will be twenty years old. I am thinking on what to give her…for sure we’re getting her books, and I’m making her something (those are standard trula kids gifts ) but I also want to give her something special to mark being 20 years old. [...]