Monthly Archives: June 2011

The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. John Ruskin

  I’m not going to look at the gaps over the last month or so. I keep saying it but it has been a rough year. What are the most important things to you about your job? Is it your pay? Respect? Perks? That what you do matters? I’m having to realign what matters to me. Kind of. It has… (more…)

It is a cart if it goes well, otherwise it is but timber ~Hindi Proverb

  I’ve had my first really ‘feels like I’m finally on break’  day.  Got J and the Bean up but both of them were still so sunburned from their accident on the lake (boat broke down, sunscreen didn’t work) they were tired and couldn’t go to work and GT camp respectively. I got them settled and started on my large… (more…)

Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. – Mark Twain

Going to have a bit of a rant here. If you know me at all, you know I’m a crazy cat lady, kept from complete marginalization by the fact that my husband is a crazy cat man and we have a crazy cat daughter. Also our house does NOT smell like cat pee. We have five cats (in order of… (more…)

You did then what you knew how to do, And when you knew better, You did better. Maya Angelou

I have eleventy blog posts in the back of my mind but I haven’t had time or energy to get to them. the last 30 days of the school year (not say the month of may—school is going into June this year). We’re all burnt, we’re all tired. I have SO much to do I’m concerned about getting it all… (more…)

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