From the monthly archives:

September 2008

It is not me, it is you…LINK HERE NOW

September 30, 2008

What blog post would you want someone to read if they were ONLY going to read one? Please link to YOUR post below in Mr. Linky! ***I recently fell in love with a fellow blogger. She has three boys. I have three boys. She blogs. I blog. She animates* her life. I animate my life.*it [...]

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potluck. POTLUCK!

September 29, 2008

Happy, happy Potluckday everyone! Today I am screening all potluck participants to make sure they are not related to Ron because of this: My cousins and I once had this idea to conoct a truly hideous dish to put out on the picnic table – a hot dish casserole that included meat, maraschino cherries, and [...]

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We interrupt this life for a brief vacation

September 27, 2008

It occurred to me earlier this week while my husband had the week off work that we had neglected to take a vacation this summer. Life had just gotten in the way. So we decided to take a mini-break this week and vacation close to home. We saw the sights… and just hung around. We [...]

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What General Mills doesn’t want the mommy public to know

September 23, 2008

This is a re-run. A post that originally “aired” 1-29-08. It is the post that is most often hit by random Googlers searching for cereal answers. Over the last few years I have developed a more strained relationship with General Mills. The American mommy public has been at its mercy its biggest demographic for 62 [...]

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Potluck: Chevys, Chickens and a Penny

September 22, 2008

It is Monday. Yes, it is. It is Potluck. Yes, it is. For today’s potluck I am NOT serving jello or anything with baked beans and I am ONLY eating what Angie brought in an attempt to help her work through some of her potluck issues: “Someone please explain why and how jello ever became [...]

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Apples?

September 20, 2008

We went to the apple orchard this week. We saw a lake inhabited by beavers. We saw baby chicks. We saw colorful flowers. We saw hay bales. And then we saw our cousin. And then we got silly. Apples? I don’t recall if we saw any. Go have more fun hosted by Lotus.

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And then my children begged me for real vegetables

September 19, 2008

I have admitted here repeatedly (hoping confession is good for the soul) that I am not the world’s best cook. Or even the world’s second best cook. Really, the world screams “uncle” when I cook. Aware of my one fault, I have attempted to make up for it in other ways so my family isn’t [...]

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In defense of my 80s hair

September 17, 2008

I graduated in 1988 which means I am supposed to go to a 20 year reunion in a few weeks. I pulled out a few yearbooks this week to find…The year is 1984. 80s Holly is living with her family in the mid-west.Why did I sign my own yearbook? As you can see, 80s Holly [...]

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Fall fashions: Nivana style

September 16, 2008

If you have been a June Cleaver Nirvana reader for awhile, you have come to expect Reid(5) to appear randomly as a blue power ranger. Let’s take a look back in Nirvana history… 11/10/07 1/07/08 1/10/08 She has been seen mothering a blue power ranger… 1/11/08 3/11/08 Marked a brief departure from regular attire for [...]

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There is a song in my potluck

September 15, 2008

Happy Monday. *insert whistling of a happy tune of your choice* Last week here at the Nirvana many of the comments were musically related. I think it must have had something to do with this improved* potluck feature: Here is where Holly fits the word potluck into a popular song from the 80′s for no [...]

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