The New Year

   Sorry I haven't written in a while, the craziness of the last week of the year has finally hit us. We're trying to balance the new play rehearsals that are going on, the last minute babysitting jobs that pop up when people realize we don't do anything or go anywhere...

Vincent's New Baby... ahem... I Mean, Car.

As your probably guess by the title, Vince has finally bought himself a car, and at long last I can have my bike back that he had to use all year to get to work since he crashed his. He simply adores...

The Big Winter Storm

We were supposed to be getting up to 2 feet of snow yesterday, complete with black ice, blizzard and below freezing temperatures. We were all getting ready for it with shovels and sand.  Looking at the weather forecast we saw a huge storm cloud headed our way. But through...

Cuties

Drew Barrymore Freddie Highmore Dakota Fanning Abigail Breslin Mary Kate and Ashly Olsen Lindsy Lohan Haley Joel Osment Leonardo DiCaprio and Kirk Camron    hayley...

Macbeth and the "Curse"

While I was finishing up one of my interviews I thought of one more question that had had me wondering for a while. Without thinking about where I was I blurted out the question, “Why is every one so crazy about the word Macbeth?” Thru-out my short experience with the theatre I was told that Macbeth...

Haircut

   Rachel my sister is good at many things, cooking, sewing, cleaning, math. But recently I got to benefit even more from her knowledge and know how. Rachel cuts hair. She...

Snow Insulation and Tabitha's Indefatigability

  Every winter my mom sends us out to the back yard to pack snow up against the back of the house. It's supposed to keep the house a little warmer than it already is. So yesterday my sisters and I crammed ourselves into our snow-pants, shoved our heads in hats and headed out...

Glasses of Water

 Ok, so I want you to try something. Its really very easy. Just place a glass of water on the window sill for each child, sibling or family member in your house. Now look at them, realizing that...

"Working" on Another Play

My brother and Dad just got into another musical at our local civic theatre called "Working". I'm happy for them. I am gearing up for the next 3 months of sending them off to rehearsals while I sit...

Favorite Quotes

"We can always try to do better. To be better. To right a wrong. Even when it feels irreversible. Of course, I'm sorry doesn't always cut it. Maybe because we use it so many different ways. As a weapon. As an excuse. But, when we are really sorry, when we use it right. When we mean it. When our actions...

Bad Roads

Wow! We are literally buried in snow! There is up to 4 feet now. Because we live next to the lake we get whats called Lake Effect snow that likes to blow over us and make us non-existent. Somehow we persevere though. With our strong snowploughs, quick road sanders and tiny but effective sidewalk...

Clutz

We were all sitting around the table in the kitchen eating dinner when Dad told Rachel to run in the other room and put a sweater on because she looked so cold sitting there. So Rachel obediently got up and walked into the other room. We heard a thump and then silence but we didnt think anything of...

Sunrise in December

 I woke up to this gorgeous sunrise yesterday. Sadly I couldn't get the best part of it because by the time I found the camera it was nearly all finished. I will try...

Snow

Ok. I guess I should have been ready for it. I mean its December already! But I think I was hoping that maybe it just wouldn't come this year. Or the next, or the next... What exactly does snow do for us? Really. We have to wake up at 5 in the morning to shovel the drive, take a full half...

Oh yeah!!!

I have this totally awesome bestie who helped me make my blog greater than I ever could have!!! Yay! Enjoy the new look cause if not... well yeah, just enjoy it! LOL Im so happy I have such a great friend. She can like do EVERYTHING on the computer. She loves to call me the blond. Haha! memori...

Just a Tiny Uprising

  Every year, a man in our church reserves two sheets of ice at the local Ice Skating rink and invites every one in the church come and bring any friends for a night of pure bliss of skating on two thin blades of metal on a floor of frozen water. You get to swerve tiny children that are...

Why? I don't know.

My little sisters have this weired problem of pointing to and at everything with the middle finger. I have no idea why it started, I mean they've never done it before, but lately everything from reading a book to pointing at a passing dog has involved an older sibling or parent taking...

Pine trees

I wanted to clear my head yesterday,so I ran out into our woods... and found a pine tree. On sudden impulse I reached out to the lowest branch and pulled my self higher and higher as the farther I went...

Guess What

Yeah, so my sister had her Birthday party yesterday and we had yummy cake and delicious ice cream with a bunch of family and every thing went off without a hitch. Excepting the fact that we had the party at Grandmas, and I, of course, forgot the candles for the cake. I went crazy when I finally...

Birthday

My sister Olivia is going to be 7 years old tomorrow and she is excited. About a year ago, Olivia was going to be six, but while I was walking through the Salvation Army I saw a candle pack for only 99 cents, and I just couldn't pass it up. The only problem was that the candles were for...

Thoughts

I was thinking lately about how short my life was. In about 13 days I will be 17, and once I'm there it will be only a year until I'm 18. Then another year and here comes 19... 20... 21. Time goes faster when you are older I think. I never thought about time when I was 10 or 11, just ask my parents,...

Gardening

My wonderful mother sent my sisters and I out into the garden yesterday to pull out all the dead plants. They are long squash plants that have stretched them selfs out farther than invited and when you pick them up (or roll them up) you get tiny white prickles in...

Memories...*sigh*

Yes... we filled a whole counter.  Our group of happy campers!  We ate at a small little restaurant in the middle of no where on the way to Camp and had amazing ice...

Thats Me?

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Camping

So I just got back from half a week of camping with family and friends down in Indiana. I am so sore from all the climbing we did. How come its when you're hurting the most that you decide to fall and hurt even more? I dont know and I dont care, im just going to sit on my couch and whine. Ok, maybe...

no way!!

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olivia all grown up

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Olivia dear

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tabitha

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haley bop

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My bub again

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Vincent my brother

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Jordan my friend

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Haley my little sister

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Rachel my sister

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ME!!

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Lights Up!!

Do you realize how much we depend on electricity? I hadn't really thought about it until I didn't have it. We had a friend of ours taking a tree down in our front yard Monday morning, (yes, Labor Day), and a branch came down knocking the power cable off the house....

Uggg!

Cant believe that my summer is almost over already. It seems like yesterday I was getting out of school for break. My summer has been filled with life long lessons, most I like to affectionately call growing pains. I've learned that being the eldest girl means that you are the first to reach the,...

Arte Bella

Beautiful Art. Im trying to think of a good name for my Magazine. Its going to be about the Preforming Arts. Im really excited about it because I love the theatre. Getting on stage and acting makes me happy and I enjoy it. Though I enjoy the back stage just as much, if not more. I love the chaos that...

School year

Im about to start on my third year in High school, and Im not sure if im ready for it. Being homeschooled is different then going to a public school, like for example my dad is having me do my own home based buisness for the year. Its going to be a newsletter/magazine. Ill have to do reserch and the...

Lemonade stand

So my little sisters did their own lemonade stand today, which resulted in burned foreheads, sweaty faces and dirty feet. Then I had to clean up, of course. The best part of the day was BLTs for dinner though . MMM... Yeah they were good. Fresh lettuce and tomatos picked from the garden... well enough...