We’re heading out. Today’s the last day of mud season, so tomorrow we get to ride!
Because I always forget how to pack over the course of the winter, I’m currently running around like a starving racoon chasing a hot dog on a string, so I’m reposting a list I did from […]

Today’s my fifteenth wedding anniversary.
 Fif. Teen. Years.
 Dayum. And in two years, there will be undeniable evidence that I’ll be old enough to be the mother of a high schooler.  In four years I’ll be sharing my car.
  :ignore: 
 Enough of that.
 So yesterday the husband had one mission: take the tall kid to the powersports shop and buy […]

How hard can it be to find a black, zip-up hooded sweatshirt? I think I have a better chance of a hoarde of agents and editors descending upon my home, clamoring for my grocery list, than I do of finding a black hoodie.
Having exhausted my usual retail haunts (yeah, that would be Wal-Mart), I ventured […]

Note to self: Google before you leap.
A while back, y’all remember when we donated to the ferrets? Well, really we donated to the Defenders of Wildlife, but y’all know what I mean. (There’s a reason I’m not linking to it.) Yes, I donated, too.

Now, of course, I find out they’re one of […]

My beloved children are now officially on winter break. It’s only been two hours since the tall one should have been dropped off and one hour for the short one, and I’m already thinking this vacation will have a high attrition rate.
The husband did manage to get me one free day, though. There’s a bike […]

I spent the weekend pretty much higher than a kite on OTC cold med cocktails. Blech. Today, since I have to actually function—kids to school, tax-related math, driving a vehicle—I’m just taking the Sudafed without washing it down with the Nyquil. I’d wash the Sudafed down with Dayquil, but I’ve found that—when combined with high […]

Things I figured out this weekend:
1. The frigid, butt-crack-of-dawn walk from the heated camper to the heated bathroom because the short kid has to pee sucks.
2. Having the husband after the fact say “He’s a boy, why didn’t you tell him to piss off the deck?” sucks more.
3. My boots are no […]

The last riding weekend of the season (for the kids and I) is imminent. It’s also time to bring the four-wheelers home, since the husband plows with mine.
Now down here in the central part of the state, it’s starting to get a little chilly in the mornings. (Translation for non-New Englanders: seeing your breath, scraping […]

It was hard, what with the 80 degree temperatures, to believe it was autumn in the mountains, but we loaded up and went north. Then we loaded up some more and went further north. For a change of pace we took machines, kids and gear—not an easy undertaking—to a trail system close to the Canadian […]

We made a last-minute decision to go north this weekend. It’s so much fun to fight for highway space with the leaf peepers, you know? Actually, we had to get the skirting up on the camper so my hubby’s feet wouldn’t freeze to the floor come winter.
Since I didn’t get my blog entry […]