Suzanne Earley

Now Joe's got the stomach bug. Poor guy.

16 years ago today, the pastor preached about how we are all "Odd Couples." Weirdest danged wedding sermon EVER. But...at the end of the day we were married, so that's all that really mattered. Sixteen! My marriage is old enough for a driver's license.

After the craptastic day I had, the fact that we are having a 2 hour delay tomorrow has probably made me happier than it made the boys...

Am hosting a party for 50 plus people at my house tonight. It's an outdoor picnic, no one will be int he house for anything more than the bathroom, but you know I'm looking at the whole house thinking: I wonder if we have time to scrub the kitchen cabinets, maybe repaint some walls and refinish the floor....................

And....we're home. Thanks to the Ellsworths for hosting us. I hope we didn't teach your children too many bad habits...

Baseball tournament day. North tama won the first game. Wish it weren't so H.O.T. Hopefully my sunscreen is thoroughly applied....

Congrats to the North Tama Redhawk GIrls Basketball team: heading to the state tournament for the first time in school history. The boys play in their 2nd round playoff game...*I* am going to be singing the National Anthem as a duet with a student. Yikes.

Day 4 of Crest Whitestrips. Mark and I are doing them together, he didn't want me to have whiter teeth without him. My top strip didn't want to come off tonight, they are pretty gross when they do come out, and I sure hope they are working. I think they are. At least, that's what I'm telling myself...

Didn't let my pot pie cool enough before I started eating, and burned my tongue. It is still quit sore. Yikes. You'd think I'd be old enough by now not to have that sort of thing happen.

Doesn't appear that any bones are broken, her color/temp were good, but Cocoa's encounter with Mark's truck earned her an overnight stay at the vet's office. She's in pain, but vet thinks she's just banged up. Do you think she'll learn not to chase vehicles? Silly dog.

Even though I know there won't be any mail out there, I have this overwhelming urge to go check the mailbox.

Everybody ready to sing? We just passed the exit for Gary, Indiana....

Getting ready to head to Des Moines to watch the Redhawk girls in their first state basketball tournament. Sadly, Joe is not feeling well and isn't coming with us.

Go ISU!

I have a sore throat. I hope it's just from yelling at the basketball game. The alternative (that I'm coming down with something...) is not acceptable.

I have the Star Spangled Banner stuck in my head.

I made the boys sit together on the couch, so I could take an "after" haircut picture. Their immediate concern was "where are you going to post this?" UH, everywhere, of course???

I pinned a chocolate cake in a mug recipe on pinterest last night. Didn't make it last night cause I didn't have eggs...We just tried it. Meh. It might have been my ingredients, or it might have been the cooking time, but overall: we were exceedingly underwhelmed. Even taking in to account that it was a microwaved cake...well, let's just say that Mark, who eats nearly everything...wasn't even willing to try it. The boys and I took tastes and...the rest of it is in the disposal.Luckily, th...

I think I should audition for The Voice.

I think the boys had a pretty good 13th birthday. Lots of awesome presents. Now, it's time for a truly awful one. Today is the day they get their braces on.

I took a nap this afternoon, it felt like the right thing to do at the time, but now that it's bedtime? I'm not sure I'll be able to fall asleep. Blergh.

I'm accompanying 5th through 8th grade solo night. 18 kids down, 8 to go....

If we were in the middle of the zombie apocalypse and my life depending on being able to do a single pull-up -- I would be dead right now.

It's a good thing pennsylvania is such a narrow state. oh. wait....

Joe just said "I feel like I might throw up." I said "OK, here's a bucket. Go to bed and aim for the bucket if you actually vomit."