Ok, I had a hard time coming up with some sort of catchy phrase for my title....so, unfortunately "Blue and yellow is an ok fellow" is kinda what we are going with. 😏 How have you been? Is life

It's been a total whirlwind of stuff here at 523....as I spoke about on my last post, the house is a wreck, Easter is only a week away, school commitments and first communion are all sweeping in and must

Hi sweet friends!! Where's my cape? I have been really absent from the blog these past couple weeks. We have had some family things going on that had me all over the place, but then we really started in

I'm in a rambling sort of mood today, so lookout. While reading comments and scrolling through blog post ideas, I got to thinking about why I blog and why I write what I do. I thought that I'd give you

Hi everyone!! Happy Friday!! It's a busy weekend here at 523....we have our new flooring coming in later this afternoon, so hopefully the hubby is finishing the painting in Caleb's playroom for that. We

Happy Wednesday!! Is it Friday yet? LOL It's been one of those weeks for me and its only the middle of the week. Oh well, I'll get through it one way or another. So, let's talk about the Jewel Rocks pallet

Hi everyone, how are you on this beautiful Monday? Spring break is over and I'm kinda glad. It wasn't quite what we were planning but we made it work. We basically fit all of our spring break activities

Hello and how are you on this beautiful Friday? I'm now doing quite well....we just received news that my mom (who was rushed to the hospital yesterday) is doing much better. So, what does your weekend

Hi everyone, how are you on this beautiful but cold Wednesday? I have a fun post today and I am super excited to bring to you. Today I am showing off some of the luxury items that, while I could live without

Hi and happy Monday! I'm freezing cold. Yep, that's all there is to that. It's actually very, very cold weather for us here in North Texas. The temperature is 22 degrees and that doesn't work out very

Happy Friday!! Today will be a somewhat quick post...I wanted to show you something I have been eyeing to buy in the very near future....like after payday? :) Anyways, I had been seeing all the fun bags

Hello and happy "hump day"! It is a dreary one here in North Texas. It's nasty, rainy, dark and cold today and it just makes me feel tired. Of course, I might also be tired because Caleb and

Hi everyone!! I'm so happy to have you here today. It's a great day for me, I finally finished that stupid Ecology paper. It only took me three weeks to complete (she said with heavy sarcasm). So, how

Happy Friday!! I have been having such fun playing with my stocks this week!! If you saw my post on Wednesday, you will have read that I started investing in the stock market. And not for retirement, though

Happy Wednesday!! How are you today? I am doing really well. Caleb and I have plans to go to the park after school today and let him run his little heart out with a bunch of random kids....he's super excited!!

This weekend we had Caleb's Cubscout Blue and Gold Banquet. He had lots of fun playing with his friends, receiving his hard earned awards, learning about lemurs and seeing waayyy too large for my personal

Hello my friends, I hope you are all doing well on this beautiful Friday. I have some cooking to do tomorrow for Caleb's Cub Scout's Blue and Gold Banquet. We are asked to bring dishes from our family's

Hi everyone, how are you doing on this beautiful Wednesday? Even though it's 9:30am, I just had the most perfect and absolutely enormous cupcake I have ever seen. The size of it was like a triple sized

And here we begin another week.....my heart is still reeling with pain from losing my grandmother. I have been so distraught that I can't seem to function in my daily life. Thursday night was terrible,

There will be a most definite shortage of posts this week....in all actuality this will more than likely be the only post this week. We are dealing with a hard loss in the family. My paternal grandmother