My sister-in-law is in the reserves, and she was called up to go to Iraq about a year ago.  We have been very anxious about her safety the entire time she was gone.  Thank goodness for emails and telephones!  We just heard that she is safely back in the US.  Hopefully for good.  We are [...]

With the economy continuing to struggle, more and more people are going to find themselves drowning in credit card debt.  They may find themselves in need of help to consolidate their debts.  I’m sorry to say that they could very well be the case for my family if things don’t improve pretty soon, especially since [...]

My hubby has told me that he wants to get some black out window blinds for our media room.  He has been having a horrible time with sun glare on the television screen when he tries to watch his television shows and movies.  So I’ve gone to the website Justblinds.com to see what they have to [...]

Whew - we had a big family dinner here this afternoon/evening.  People started arriving around 2:30, left about 7:45.  Everyone brought some food item to share, and it was all really good stuff.  I was the hostess, so I didn’t get as much time to visit as everyone else, and I spent a lot of [...]

Yesterday as soon as I got off of work from delivering the school kids to their homes I jumped into my car and went to pick my hubby up from his work, then we went to the Vienna Metro station to pick up our son “J” who is here for a one week visit before [...]