Posts Tagged by Joplin
Just a Bunch of Words…
| April 14, 2012 | Posted by Cheryl under Random Crap |
Amidst the Washi Tape craze that is going on here, other stuff is happening also. It’s good to be back in St. Louis. If you follow hockey, you then know that the Blues are in the Stanley Cup playoffs. If you follow baseball, then you know that today was the Cardinals home opener. It rained all day and the Cards lost to the stupid Cubs. I blame Friday the 13th. I went over to my parents house on Thursday evening after dinner to borrow a sander from my dad. It was awesome. I packed up the kids, I drove 2… Continue reading…
Happy Valentine’s Day
| February 14, 2012 | Posted by Cheryl under Family, Holidays, Valentine's Day |
Happy Valentine’s Day! Sending LOVE from my family to YOURS! Continue reading…
Do You Remember?
| September 11, 2011 | Posted by Cheryl under Random Crap |
Do you remember where you were 1o years ago today? I do. I was in my third year of college. I had just gotten out of the shower and I heard my phone ringing. I let it go to my machine. It rang again and went to the machine and then rang again. I was annoyed! Leave a message I thought Jeez! I finally answered it and it was my boyfriend almost shouting at me to turn on the TV. “Turn on a news channel!” It didn’t really matter what channel I turned the TV to, the pictures were all the same. The burning twin… Continue reading…
First Day of Pre-K
| September 7, 2011 | Posted by Cheryl under Family |
Tuesday was Michael’s first day of Pre-K. For all of you reading who do not have children, or for all of you reading whose children are grown, Pre-K is not to be confused with Preschool. Pre-K is like SO. MUCH. COOLER. Pre-K is like 4 year olds you know…not those little 3 year olds in preschool. Pre-K kids get to go to Kindergarten next year, as like in real school, that you go to all day long. BIG difference… Michael is going to St. Mary’s this year and it was one of the schools that was destroyed by the tornado we had… Continue reading…
Joplin, MO Tornado Craziness Part 2
| June 1, 2011 | Posted by Cheryl under Random Crap |
At first I was going to make this post about more of the devastation around Joplin. After driving through what I would refer to as “ground zero”, I feel that unless you actually see it for yourself, in person, no photo will ever show you the true devastation. Imagine driving down a main road in your city that you have driven down umpteen times before, now imagine it flattened into piles of twisted metal, wood and stone. Most almost unrecognizable. So I thought I could focus this entry on the GOOD things going on around Joplin. The things that bring… Continue reading…
Memorial Weekend 2011
| May 30, 2011 | Posted by Cheryl under Family |
I hope everyone had a wonderful Memorial Weekend. I know we certainly did! My parents and sister came down from St. Louis this weekend. It was the first time down for my mom and sister so their first trip might be etched in their brains forever as I took them on a ride through the tornado-wrecked part of town. My boys LOVE when family visits and I LOVE seeing Ryan practically jump out of my arms into my dad’s! I want the boys to remember holidays and summer by memories filled with family time! We barbecued, drank, played outside, got some sun, the boys swung… Continue reading…
Joplin, MO Tornado Craziness Part 1
| May 25, 2011 | Posted by Cheryl under Family |
Okay Mother Nature, you can quit being such a bitch to us! Seriously. This poor town can barely take any more! Sunday evening while the boys and I enjoyed a nice dinner with Freddy’s oldest daughter, Nicole, and her girlfriend, Marie, a few miles away a tornado was about to rip the head off of a section of Joplin, and then proceed to spit down it’s throat. Graphic, I know. However hardly as graphic as the horrible devastating pictures of the aftermath of the relentless tornado. Total devastation. One person described it as looking at pictures from WWII after the… Continue reading…
Walmart Woes
| May 19, 2011 | Posted by Cheryl under Random Crap |
I hate Wal-mart! What I hate even more is the fact that I have to go there every week! Target doesn’t carry our brand of dog food and let’s just face it…shampoo, razors, napkins, TP and paper towels are just cheaper there! I still hate it in all it’s ghetto-hillbilly-trashiness glory! I was actually beginning to accept Wal-Mart as an appropriate place to shop while we still lived in Apple Valley. It was freshly remodeled to include a super center grocery store. The aisles and displays were tasteful and clean. The town of Apple Valley was a bit more upscale so it seem to not… Continue reading…
Batter Up!
| May 17, 2011 | Posted by Cheryl under Family |
Michael had his first Tee-Ball game last night and OH MY GAWD…I DIDN’T HAVE THE SD CARD IN THE CAMERA! What in the hell was I thinking? Get your shit together MOM! So I improvised and took a few pictures with my not-so-stellar camera on my BlackBerry. Those pictures will do for now, until next game, when I bring not only the SD card in the camera but 3 more as spares and crack out the big guns with the 250mm zoom lens! The kids are so stinkin’ cute it makes me all warm and fuzzy! They, first off, have no… Continue reading…
Frame Frenzie
| May 11, 2011 | Posted by Cheryl under DIY, Home Decor |
I was finally able to find all the boxes with our family photos in them. I am only missing one, that I can remember, of our whole wedding party. The search team is still out on that one, but in the meantime I realized I did not have enough shelf space to fit all the pictures I wanted to put up! Bummer! Enter Young House Love’s awesome inspiration for a frame wall. (Hop on over there and see their masterpiece!) They truly have a beautiful frame WALL…I have a frame section-of-the-wall. First reason is that I didn’t have as many… Continue reading…
