Okay. So. There is nothing like a teenager driving in the snow for the first time on WAY TOO snowy roads to clear out your bowels. Forget the roughage, just give your kid a set of car keys. Uhhh, I thought I was nervous when she drove alone the first time? *laughs manically* This is [...]

Middle Child and I were practicing driving and I mentioned she should be farther behind the car ahead of her, because she’s young….and so are her reflex’s.  (Her driving has been more comforting lately, btw)   Until that is, she spoke this statement: “Don’t worry mom…I’ve got stealth reflex’s…Reflex’s like a NINJA….Wuahhha” (and then nearly missed the [...]

In Hawaii, Aloha Friday is the day to take it easy and look forward to the weekend. I’ll ask a simple question for you to answer.  If you’d like to participate, just post your own question on your blog and leave your link at An Island Life   My Question:    “What scares you more…your own teenager [...]

So I gave MC another driving lesson.  This one was a 40 minute drive home from a sleepover.  A long and winding road she had not traveled before.  That’s always fun.  I came to the conclusion that a good fallback job for her would be a driving a street cleaning truck because that chick can [...]

So…MILESTONE !  Half way home from drivers ed class tonight,  Middle Child decided  she wanted to drive home.  “Um, you do know that you’ll have to drive on the main streets…right?” “Yep.   I don’t think there’s that ‘much’ of main street driving til we get to our house” Pretty much the ‘conversation’ went like this [...]

So I picked MC up from her FIRST drivers ed class.  She moseyed on over to the car and I motioned ‘wanna drive’?   Response:  Head shake – no.  So she gets in.  ((keep in mind she’s terrified of killing someone by driving)) “How was drivers ed class?” “Oh.  They showed us a mooovie.   A movie about [...]

Two posts in one!  Yea!   I just wanted to say thank you to all that ordered from my new business, Aventine Hill Bath Emporium!  All orders have been shipped out!  During the last couple days I’ve taken one more step and also opened up an Etsy Store!  You can visit it here.  Most of the [...]