Hell’s Half Acre

I have an enormously long post to make about enormously large changes we’ll soon be making and my reaction, but as it always seems, I’m not currently with time to explore en blogue.  So, suffice to say, I’ll try, but we’re headed back to Carlsbad Caverns today for another explore, then to the Dollar Store [...]

Jamie has taken over many of my chores since he got back from the US (in May) and is finding the budget aspect to be a challenge. After spending the thousands we did to bring Michael back, I instituted a strict budget and part of the budget is a limit of $600 a [...]

The boys were disappointed again this week when Carl Kasell announced that Peter Sagal was again on vacation. They live for the weekends and Car Talk, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me and Prarie Home Companion. If we were living in a stick house, I’m sure they’d know so much more of typical [...]

We were falling in love all over again (doesn’t this get boring???) with Saltillo. Since Ellen steadfastly refused to leave Saltillo (and who wouldn’t blame her, the windy roads, the 2 hours of travel) Jamie and Michael first headed to the canyon, then Jamie, Michael and 3 kids, and then an extra day [...]

Everywhere I talk to people about the US, it is always referred as “the other side” (el otro lado). Tomorrow, we will finally end our 6 months (plus) in Mexico and trade tortas for sandwiches, manzanas for apples, queso for cheese but we’ll never trade the beauty of all we love of Mexico. [...]

Today is my mom’s birthday and she is a grand 60 years young!
Ellen has thrown up the last two nights running and last night I managed to sleep from sometime after 6am until 8:30.  Yippee!  Since it was the second night, my brain is running very much on empty.  As such, we didn’t leave for [...]

I haven’t posted in such a long time that I don’t think I’ll ever catch up. I almost don’t want to even try; it seems insurmountable. Our computer had such a lovely vacation travelling the country that I don’t think it wanted to come home. I think that when I last [...]

We’ve been supremely busy doing nothing. I have been working, Jamie does laundry and cooks, the kids play and mess the place up and steadfastly refuse to do anything we want. On Saturday I headed into town to get blood work done and since it was sunny (again!) decided to try to [...]