We saw these signs in several places at the zoo and I just had to snap a picture of one because I thought they were hilarious, but I was really glad that they have them because they’re bound to stick in your mind much more than just saying “Don’t climb on the fences!”

We had a family outing today. We took the munchkin to the Central Florida Zoological Park in Sanford. It was a very fun day, and I’m sure I’ll be sharing more pictures of our trip over the next few days both here and on the ami-chan.net blog.
This picture was taken in the “petting zoo” area, [...]

So, this is my first week participating in Four Foods on Friday. I have to give a quick shout out to Skeet’s Stuff for putting me on to this meme. It looks like fun! Here we go.
#1. Bacon. Chewy, crispy or burnt?
For me I like bacon crispy or burnt. The crispier the better. I like [...]

We have bears in our neighborhood! I wish I had pictures from the other day but unfortunately I only saw the aftermath of the bear visit and then heard about if from the family across the street. We’ve been having problems on trash pick up day because of garbage winding up strewn all across the [...]

The munchkin is fascinated with the vacuum cleaner. He keeps pulling off the extensions and trying to use them as swords, and pushing it around the house.
My husband tells me that I should write children’s books about how helpful he is.

You may have noticed I haven’t talked about my diet or exercise plans in a while; because for a bit there they really went to pot. Lately I’m in the mood to start going with things again. I’ve been doing minor things like taking the munchkin out for the romps in the morning or using [...]

I spent yesterday dealing with two extremes in insurance. Let me tell you that I’m very glad that our car insurance people are so much more competent and helpful than the health insurance place. I wish Blue Cross Blue Shield would take a leaf from State Farm’s book!
Yesterday morning I called the EMT department who [...]

We got my son the special crayons which only draw on special paper; so…he opened a box of wax crayons that he was given free from the grocery store and drew on the wall instead. Does anyone know what gets wax crayon off walls?

My Mum sent me an email the other day about the New Year meme that I wrote an entry on the other day. So, now I can expand a bit more on the tradition I was speaking about. It is a British tradition, but it’s primarily rooted in our Scottish heritage.
Mum wrote:
Just catching up on [...]

We’ve been suffering for a while with cheap knives from Walmart because we didn’t get any knives as a wedding present and it was what we could afford. Mum got us a house-warming present this weekend of some NICE knives so now we’re not going to have to keep replacing knives which are going rusty [...]