Getting Through Life One Solution at a Time
Confetti eggs are one of the most fun and best selling games at the fall festival at my kids’ school. The confetti eggs are regular raw eggs that are emptied, filled with confetti, and the hole is covered with tissue, and then painted. The kids buy the eggs and then break them over each others’… [Continue Reading]
This kitchen table has been around the block a time or two. It started it’s life when my parents got married in the early 1960’s. My mom calls it Danish Modern. It originally had a dark stain on it, and it was a good useable table. When I got married in 1991, the table came… [Continue Reading]
I work from home in a sense in that I am an Occupational Therapist that travels to people’s houses. I have my own toys and therapy equipment that I bring with me, so I need to keep all of my therapy stuff somewhere. Our office had been dismantled due to a flood, so I am… [Continue Reading]
Here is yesterday’s summer slave labor job of the day. There was much complaining, but we got some pretty flowers planted. Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
I have been thinking about these for weeks, since we last went to Disneyland. I am going to give away a little known secret of Disneyland, and I hope that I am not sorry later. There is a little hole in the wall ice cream stand that is off the beaten path and hardly ever… [Continue Reading]
This desk was a freebie. It was unwanted in it’s old home, and I usually don’t turn away freebies. It is a computer desk that was used in a credit union. It lived in my daughter’s room for quite a while, but it is huge, and her room is small. It was taking up too… [Continue Reading]
Making sun tea today. It’s nice to have the sun do all of the work while I go roller skating with my son’s class for his end of year party. I put in 12 cups of water, almost 1 cup of sugar, and 4 tea bags. When it was done in the sun, I added… [Continue Reading]
My son is currently reading one of my favorite books from childhood called Eli and the Tiger, by Bruce Van Blair. It was written in 1974, and has been out of print for a very long time. We lost our signed copy from childhood, but my brother found a copy at a used book store… [Continue Reading]
Right now, we are in Yosemite, which is a yearly tradition for our family. We bring our bikes and ride around Yosemite Valley. Well, I am making plans for the purchase of bike accessories that I will make when we get home. My sister in law has a cool basket that goes on the… [Continue Reading]
On our recent trip to Yosemite, my son was walking over to throw some things in the bear-proof trash can. It was dark at the time. As he was getting close to the trash can, the people in the next cabin yelled at him to watch out, that there was a skunk. My son stopped,… [Continue Reading]
I am an Occupational Therapist and Inventor. My Husband is in the Navy Reserves, so sometimes I am a Navy wife. I have recently started a blog about Therapy activities. I love the before and afters of … [Read More...]
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