If you have spent any time with me this month, you know I have been reading Henry Cloud’s book Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality. I think it is my book of the year so far. Okay it is only the first month and I have a lot of reading to go. But I am in 7 or 8 other books and this was just brilliant! I keep rambling and raving about it. Sorry if you are sick of it. If you want it, I’ll buy you a copy. It’s epic. Okay maybe not all of you. I don’t … Continue reading Do You Want Growth or Comfort?

Last night I got in from a ball about 1:30/2am to hear… Beep. I paused. About 45 seconds later…. Beep.  Apparently one of our smoke alarms was on the way out and it had decided to let us know. I started getting ready for bed hoping I could ignore it. Beep. No definitely not. I went out to the hall to find my housemate with a broom poised at it trying to make it stop. She had been woken out of a sound sleep for the beeping. Thankfully there was a ladder on the same landing as the waning alarm. … Continue reading Jo and Christy vs the Smoke Alarm

I got stuck in the snow today. And may have had to be dug out by two little middle aged to elderly ladies. 😉 Who ended up giving my very stuck car a push up the hill. The moral of the story is: No matter how good of a snow driver you are, sometimes you just need to buy a shovel. Which I promptly did today. The end.  Continue reading Confession

I’m from Ohio. Which looks like THIS in the winter:  Actually this was December, and the snow was just getting started. It gets worse. January and February are our bad months. #HudsonOhio  It isn’t THIS bad where I am from. This is an hour north of me- Chardon Ohio. Chardon does consistently get this much snow. We all know what the term “lake affect” means. I hope the guy who posted this photo online doesn’t get all photo rights angry on me. 😉  I live in Britain. Which is kinda like living in Texas when it comes to snow. Except without the … Continue reading How to Drive in the Snow – instructions from an Ohio girl