No D Day

October 1, 2013.Reading time 5 minutes.

Today I finally went to the CA DMV and applied for a CA drivers license. Luckily I made an appointment so my time at the DMV was only 1.5 hours. I had to prove who I was, get my picture taken and take a written test. There were 36 questions on the test. I was […]

Tetris

May 22, 2013.Reading time 3 minutes.

Greetings old friend. I have a number of friends that I don’t talk to regularly. Sometimes weeks, months even a year can pass in between chats. Still when we do reconnect it is like time stood still and we pick up where we left off. We recognize that life gets busy and crazy and sometimes […]

Don’t Mind My Voice

December 17, 2012.Reading time 2 minutes.

This year brought huge changes in my life – in my families lives. The biggest change for our family was a move across the country from Texas to California. For me the biggest change was becoming part of a larger community. Not a community connected by streets, courts, high school football games and the local […]

Sunday Seven

October 7, 2012.Reading time 6 minutes.

I’ve been MIA. For the weeks leading up to our big move and since we moved I have been overwhelmed. Packing, moving, driving cross country, unpacking, registering the kids for school, writing and implementing 504s (legal documents that protect my kids with diabetes at school), meeting neighbors, meeting parents, scheduling play-dates for the kids, planing […]

California for Bust

August 6, 2012.Reading time 5 minutes.

Technology is an awesome thing. Social networking sites keep us connected, informed, and entertained. Technology is also addictive and having been mostly unable to get connected for the last week has been causing me major withdrawals. There should be a 12 step program for this addiction. We left TX on the 3rd of Aug. I […]