Check out my latest articles...please :-)

I need a few more views on Associated Content to reach my monthly goal of 1,000 page views...I only need 69 more page views! I have over 10,600 page views (with 69 articles) already since September when I first started which is totally cool.

The link is on the right side of the blog page. Quite a few of the latest articles are Columbus specific (don't hold me to all of the information...some of it was just fancy writing :-) )

The biggest news in this realm is that I was just tagged to write an article that may or not be sold to the Atlanta Journal Constitution! I made $40 just from Associated Content for it. One little article that took me about 3 or 4 hours to write and only had to be 500 words and I got $40 for it! Woo hoo! The best thing is that my writing is now being looked at more by the decision-makers at AC so I could have more opportunities like this one.

If the article gets published anywhere, I will be sure to let you all know!

And the answer is...

A smaller part of this cake...(the star is supposed to be the capital, Baghdad)


I catered a dinner for a friend of mine in Illinois whose husband was in the Illinois National Guard and was being deployed to Iraq (way back in 2003). This cake is exactly what she wanted.

I got a new sink!

Ever since we moved into the house I wanted a deeper sink with a higher faucet and on Saturday, that is just what I got :-) I didn't want to be one of those people that renovates some of their house in order to try to sell it and then wish they would have done it sooner so they could enjoy it.

Thanks to my wonderful husband and helpful little girl I have a new sink to use for a few months.

"What is it?" Wednesday

And the answer is... ( late again...)

The cat with a nylon over his head. You know...a cat burglar :-)



The girls thought it was hilarious and the cat didn't seem to mind too much :-)

"What is it Wednesday?" (on Friday)

It's been crazy

The last two weeks or so have consisted of pre-created posts that were auto-posting for me and I missed Wednesday!

With trying to get the house ready to be put on the market, getting quotes from moving companies, looking for houses in Wisconsin, getting Loran to apply for his jobs, and the day to day living around here (which has become more clean than we normally live...anyone have any suggestions on how to DAILY keep the house CLEAN with two little ones, two dogs, a cat and a husband so that we can get in the routine for when people will hopefully be stopping by for house hunting...?)

So, it has been crazy and will only slow down slightly once the big things are done. I am packing books and clothes and toys and photos so that we can depersonalize the house. We are making minor (and one major) repairs to the house and I have to undo all of the painting I did!

I will cry the day I have to paint over Julia's tiger. I worked hard on it...oh well. So I will be posting Wednesday today (especially for Jodi, because she inquired :-) )