Raising Blessings

Tomorrow is Canada Day and I have to go down to Salt Lake to get fingerprinted and interviewed to renew my US permanent resident card. I know, not a very patriotic thing to do on Canada Day! While I go out to the laundromat tonight I am going to pick some stuff up for a [...]

I read Kara’s blog while she was in the process of buying her house so I was expecting it to be time consuming but it is getting a little more overwhelming than I thought it would be right now. This weekend we dropped our loan officer who was not working very well with us and [...]

Those of us who are suffering in unbearable heat are grateful for the invention of air conditioners. It is not just humans who loose efficiency when we are over heated computers do as well. For the last month our computer has been randomly crashing and shutting off. I wonder if this could be a cause [...]

The newest NBC reality show debuted last night, The Baby Borrowers features 5 teenage couples (at least the girls) who *think* they can handle having a baby. The couples will take care of a baby for 3 days, then take care of toddlers, children, pre-teens and even elderly people. All while living in a gorgeous home and not *really* [...]

When someone comments on this blog for the first time I have to manually approve of it because I don’t want a bunch of spam on my blog. A couple months ago I accidently deleted some new commenters comments and I did the same thing today! I think I am clicking on ‘Approve’ but I [...]

I was so busy this morning meeting with our mortgage lender, talking with our realtor and doing other house stuff. I didn’t even eat breakfast until 11:30! While I was on the phone Sariah decided to decorate the oven and dishwasher with red crayon. Her little hands were scrubbing for a long time, I don’t [...]

It seems that cell phones have become the new pocket watch. When I think of an actual pocket watch I imagine a 19th century train conductor pulling out his pocket watch to see what time it was. According to this wikipedia article men considered wrist watches feminine until World War 1 when officers began to wear wrist watches [...]

Serena is a 3 year old girl from Britain who has been fighting neuroblastoma for 18 months. Neuroblastoma is a cancer of the nerve cells. Most people who are diagnosed with this cancer are younger that 5 years old. Serena’s doctors have said that there is nothing more they can do to cure her but there is a [...]