Tomorrow is my birthday and I get 3 kids plus whoever ends up here home from school!!! Thank goodness I love kids! Saturday we will head to the St Patty’s Day Parade in the French Quarter and hopefully not get beamed with a cabbage!
~ Angelina Jolie will try and help the NOLA schools – good for her ~ Section 8 housing – nobody wants it in their back yard. ~ Crime – lots of murders in NOLA – how special ~ Rain is coming *talk amongst yourselves*
This is a new blog, so not getting a ton of traffic from the locals yet, but Google is giving me hits. Watch out world – here I come! 4 50.00% teach nola 1 12.50% crawfish boil image 1 12.50% lake ponchatrain 1 12.50% jon donley 1 12.50% seven sisters voodoo shop
Yesterday’s paper had a comprehensive list of summer camps for the rugmonsters. If this area is like any I have lived in before, I better hurry up & rake out some cashola for the little yippers. The good camps usually fill up quickly!
I don’t want to be inside. This weather is simply gorgeous!!! Might even be time to put the ol’ heater on in the pool!
Had to share the good news with my 5 regular readers (hi mom & Cotillion friends). This is the first time in my life all the kids are in school all day. Last semester my kindergartner only went 1/2 day, but since we moved here from OK in January- JACKPOT – full day. Time to …
“Here comes the rain.” I know, I’ll probably be saying that the rest of my days in LA. I spent 3 years in the El Paso desert, 2 in Oklahoma during a drought & now I live in the perma-swamp. Really, I welcome rain, because otherwise I would never get anything done (am an outdoor …
What happened to your area from Katrina? Well, in Mandeville (where I now live), big trees fell on houses & water often destroyed the gaping holes. My house was fortunate as the trees never penetrated the roof or fell on someone else’s roof. Today I am having that last hazardous over 40 year old pine …
I have to step away from the King Cake until next year. Dang this stuff is good!
Took the kids, friends & their kids down to Canal & Bourbon street for 2 parades, We now offiicaly have every bead manufactured in the year 2007! And for those concerned about what the kids saw, only G-rated stuff. Really!!!! What the world thinks is soooooo wrong!
The whole family went to the “Krewe of Eve” parade last night. We watched from the start, surrounded by tons of families & kids. We now have another box of beads, tons of stuffed animals, Barbie dolls & just “stuff.” You either have to stand back, get close to the floats, or be as high …
I’m hoping one of my new St. Tammany readers can tell me the best place to drop off donations. I just cleaned out half my wardrobe & it feels great!!!