Dear Kids, If I have to shout or repeat myself anymore...well lets just say it wont be pleasant. I am so sick of it. When I give you clear directions, I expect that they be followed. &nbs...
Way back when there used to be this girl name Keely who started a blog meme called Random Tuesday Thoughts, and then she passed the torch to Stacy, who now keeps the random alive. Since my thou...
Dear Readers, You know what is good about a spectacularly crap week? It really gives you perspective on the world. I have seen the best of people with their outpouring of support for me in my t...
Its amazing how the mind works. How it protects you until what needs to be done is done. All feeling goes. You get it together and you get done what needs to be done. Then you...
Dear The Man, I am so damn proud of you! MSgt in 10 years! I know I said I would be happy even if you didnt get the promotion this year. I know you said you could probably use a bit...
I suppose all bloggers by nature, even if they are introverts in person, are people who want to be noticed. Were all metaphorically screaming with our posts "Look at me! Arent I the g...
I very rarely want to get onto a table top and shout someones praises, but this year at CybHer I might have become a Nickie OHara fangirl. You see, at most blogging events that I have been to e...
1 weekend. 1 tenth wedding anniversary. 1 CybHer blogging conference. 1 incident with a SatNav with no sense of direction. 1 feisty train buddy 1 foodie train buddy 1 amazing roommate 1 stomach doing...
"Thats so gay!" is what LaLa heard in school. So, during bath time she asked me, "Whats gay?" Three of my best friends are gay, but I have never felt the need to di...
So I was minding my business catching up on the television shows that I had missed over the past week when I heard my husband swearing- loudly. Not an unusual occurrence around here, but this t...
Dear LaLa, So I am having a bit of a mild panic attack because of your school trip this weekend. This is the first time you will be away from home for more than one night not in the company of ...
In 8th grade when I was 13 I took a home economics class because it was considered an "easy A". I got the A, but I think it was mostly due to my ability to follow a recipe and not muck ...
Dear British Weather, Despite the fact that you can not find it in your heart to quit deluging us with rain, you have seen fit to provide just enough sunshine to create at least one rainbow a day for...
I have been a parent for a little over 8 years now and I clearly remember back to when my oldest daughter was just a squirmy little babe in arms. So cute and cuddly...and mute. Well, mute...
So, my husband has this annoying habit of wanting me to lay in bed and just cuddle with him at ridiculously early hours in the evening so that he can fall asleep. He has to be up before the but...
Some of you may have seen my Facebook status. Cheeto Bandito was killed last night. He wandered up onto the road in front of my house and got hit by a car. My neighbor was kind enou...
Gordon Ramsey has nothing on this kitchen nightmare. So on a Tuesday, as in four days before Saturday, my husband came home and said "So I either signed you up to make potato salad or pasta salad...
1. An electric kettle.2. Clotted Cream (not very often though or I would be as big as a house)3. Cornish Pasties (see #2)4. Sausage Rolls (see #2 and #3)5. An assortment of tea cups and mugs. I used ...
Hit play on the video and read along with the music. It works better that way.So we meet again, School Holidays. So far, I seem to have gotten the best of you. A wonderful visit by my grandparents co...
I swear my Grandmother In Law might be The Oracle from The Matrix. That would be Kats grandmother. This is why....as told my The Man.....The Mans Words.....So I asked LaLa to help me pick up the yard...
Dear Weather,I dont want to tempt fate by saying you have been lovely, but you have. 4 days of sunshine before April? Unheard of! If this is how nice you are in March, I bet it is going to be boiling...
I was never going to get old. Never. Never going to be middle aged. However on Friday evening I managed to do something so spectacularly stupid and clumsy that I have now painted the words middle age...
Dear Cheeto Bandito (formerly Gingerbread Rogers), Whilst knocking the cat food bowl off its perch into the dog food bowl for easier access is an admirable strategy, we the Governing Council of the B...
My husband, better know as The Man, has this week off of work. He is supposed to be studying for a test to determine if he will be promoted to the next rank in the Air Force. So far there hasnt been ...
The other night we had sausages and chips for dinner. It was extremely yummy because the butchers near our house make some mighty fine sausages. About 30 minutes after we had finished dinner, LaLa ca...
Dear Edinburgh and York,The Bungalow Crew and Granny and PaPa will be visiting you during the Easter Holidays. Consider this fair warning.Love, Kat-------------------------De ar Thinking Slimmer,I hav...
So, weve had a bit of a SNAFU (in case you dont know what that means it is a US Marine acronym that means Situation Normal-All Effed Up) here at the bungalow. Apparently the kitten that my friend gav...
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