My entire life whenever I sang “Surfin’ USA” I would sing “If everybody had a notion across the USA.” It wasn’t until I heard my girls singing it a couple of weeks ago that I learned that I have been singing the wrong words for about three decades. Did you know that the Beach Boys are actually saying “If everybody… Read more »
Why? Because is it just me, or has the cost of groceries skyrocketed ? Maybe it’s because it is “the season” in south Florida, the time of year when all the northerners come down to enjoy our weather. I noticed the change a couple of weeks ago when I went to Wal-Mart to buy my favorite kind of cranberry juice…. Read more »
It all started this morning when Adrienne accidentally broke my hand mirror.About an hour later Erica yelled, “Mommy, the nail polish fell and broke and spilled all over the floor!” (And all over her jeans!) As soon as we got the nail polish all cleaned up, I opened the kitchen cabinet and a bottle of ketchup came flying out and… Read more »
When I was about nine years old I developed a huge crush on Donny Osmond. I soon learned that he was a Mormon. As a Catholic living in New Jersey, I didn’t even know other religions existed, so the concept of Mormon meant nothing to me. I soon learned that it meant he didn’t drink or smoke. As the… Read more »
The last time we bought paint to paint the inside of our house I had the guy at Home Depot print off an extra label of the color formula so I could keep it in my wallet and buy a gallon if I ever needed one for touch-ups. Needless to say, we were beyond SHOCKED when we went back two… Read more »