By the time you read this, we will be sleeping in a tent under the pine trees!  Yep, we made it camping friends!  We really made it! So stay tuned for the infamous Top Ten Reasons to Go Camping!  The 2011 list may knock it out of the park this year! The weather is saying [...]

What do Wii, Photography and Your Kids Have in Common?

She got bangs this week, inherited my old Blackberry and acts like she is 18 instead of 9.  Pascaline is also a texting maniac with her Grammie and great grandma (Gigi Ma).   This is a self portrait that she did of her new bangs. She texted it to the whole family.  My favorite part was [...]

Today is our thirteen year wedding anniversary!  And I love this man more than ever! xoxo, Me Ra p.s.  Tomorrow we start a search for one special mom!  Are you that mom?  Details tomorrow! 

Warning:  This is a long one with lots of photos!  When we came home from Thailand, we were almost five weeks behind in homeschool.  The Denuge Fever had changed our whole trip, and it was looking like Pascaline would be doing homeschool through the whole summer to finish 3rd grade.  But there was another option.  [...]

I have the most amazing husband in the world.  Brian worked all last week on a big surprise for Mother’s Day.  He kept telling me how it was going to be all about me because he’s messed up enough in the past, and he is much wiser and older now.    For instance, he assured [...]

Meet the rough and tough GI Joe birthday party team! Meet their Commander Chief! Cobra likes to spoil birthdays, especially GI Joe birthdays! Shoot—that nasty Cobra!  It’s Blaze’s birthday, and he’s after a tank that is stuffed with riches!  The GI Joe team must work together and work fast to find the clues and solve [...]

She Spoke too soon

Me Ra spoke too soon yesterday. This is her Husband, Brian. Last night after posting her blog and after dinner, she went to bed with her whole body hurting. No, not throwing up, but she’s got the same thing as the kids. This morning, she felt well enough to let me know I was in [...]

Little brothers are pretty special.  I consider myself super lucky because I’ve got two.  Aside from Brian, they are both my closest friends.    One of them is in a constant race with me to be a guest on Oprah’s show.  He lives in Beverly Hills, and let’s just say that when my dad gave [...]

Yes, you have to take three showers to get the campfire smell out of your hair, and you freeze at night when the temperature drops, and you have nightmares about what things live in the bottom of the outhouse toilet–then your daughter drops her flashlight down there because she needs to know. Yes, all these [...]