13 Techniques My Kids Know The kids are taking martial arts these days. They’ve been taking classes solidly for six months now and have each gotten two new belts. DS is slightly ahead of DD which is different and controversial in terms of sibling rivalry since he’s a year younger. Before last fall,…
13 Happenings On April 3, 1968 You say it’s your birthday? Well, it’s my birthday too! This is somewhat of a running joke in my son’s Cub Scout Pack. I share my birthday with his den leader, but she’s older than I am =P We also share the day with my other friend…
13 of My Standard Recipes I like to cook, hate to clean. If there’s something besides books that I collect, it would have to be recipes. I love reading recipes and I love knowing some history behind the recipe as well. Back in 2000, I found a wonderful site. At allrecipes.com you can…
13 Songs On My Soundtrack I loved this meme when Gina Ardito did it a couple weeks ago for her Thursday Thirteen. My only problem was deciding which music collection to use. My laptop only has instrumental music: Opus 2. Waltz # 1 and Violin Concerto In F, RV 296 – 3. Allegro…
Kat from Kat’s Krackerbox gave me an Excellent Blog Award today. How very sweet of her. Thank you so much, Kat! The Rules: By accepting this Excellent Blog Award, you agree to award it to 10 more people whose blogs you find Excellent Award worthy. You can give it to as many people as you…
13 Possible Short-Term Problems I brainstormed a bit today on putting together short-term problems that would pull the hero and heroine together yes provide some conflict on why they might not be the best match at first glance. I’ll readily admit that many of these were heavily influenced by romance novels I’ve read…
MJ Fierstein tagged me for this new meme. I also got tagged by the 8 Things one, but this was quick and easy, and a lot of fun! And I got to watch it start. hehe. Did you ever play the game Telephone when you were a kid? It’s sometimes called Rumor or Gossip. You…
13 Studio Ghibli Movies We Love Hiyao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli is as big or bigger than Disney here in the U.S. We own these thirteen (and probably others) in both the original Japanese and the American dubbed releases. We’ve watched most of their movies multiple times and the kids really enjoy them as…
13 States I’ve Visitedbut Never Resided 1. Pennsylvania (while living in Maryland) 2. New Jersey (while living in Maryland) 3. Virginia (while living in Maryland) 4. West Virginia (while living in Maryland) 5. Delaware (while living in Maryland) 6. North Carolina (while living in Maryland) 7. Florida (while living in Maryland, Alabama, Texas…
13 Touristy Things To Do In San Diego Since I’ve got family visiting this week and I know of several people planning to visit the city, I thought I’d toss these up this week. We’re talking about going on the whale/dolphin tour thing tomorrow. DD asked why I didn’t include Disneyland (where we…