I’ve been horrible with reading lately!  I really love to read novels but it’s one of the many balls in the air right now. It’s just so hard to find the time for all the things I enjoy to do. But,  I’ve recently picked up Ken Follett’s Pillars of the Earth and am hoping to plow through it while I’m [...]

If you have kids going to a Canadian University I’ve found a deal for you. The Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 suite is available to students for only $64! It’s regularly $889 and includes every major Microsoft program a student might need. The only requirements students need to meet to be eligible for the deal is that they are enrolled in [...]

I’m not much for composing poetry, in fact, I don’t even know if this qualifies as a poem.  It  just kind of fell out of my fingers tonight. Summer in the Badlands Sitting in the creek to stay cool we laugh and sink in the silt. Clothes dry quickly as we kindle a fire, small at first but raging and [...]

My Uncle on my Mother’s side told me that’s where smurfs lived.  At 5 years old I stood inside the tree, searching for the tiny blue characters but only saw beetles and moss. Later, I revisited this tree as a grown woman, with my husband.  This was before we had little H.  I still looked for smurfs even though I [...]

It’s days before her first birthday.  She doesn’t want to drink her bottle.  She doesn’t want to eat.  She’s sick.  Hours have gone past and more hours still and she hasn’t wet her diaper.  I’m starting to worry. Finally she seems enthusiastic about a jar of creamed corn.  It’s always been her favorite.  She eats the whole thing and I’m [...]

It was hot. The kind of day where the humid air stands still and heavy around you, laying on your body as you try to rest in your bed. We pushed the covers to the floor and turned on the fan. It laboriously moved hot air over us and failed to provide its intended relief. We had gone to bed [...]

Today is the first day of MomDot’s PR Blackout Challenge. I’m happily participating and would like to take a moment to explain why I’m going to take part, and what I hope to accomplish this week. 1)  Why I’m participating If you’ve been a regular reader since the beginnings of Maternal Spark you’ll know that I used to do a [...]

I wrote a few days ago about how I recently obtained a new laptop.  Shopping for a laptop is daunting.  You start out on Google and the results are overwhelming.  It’s hard to compare prices and it’s difficult to gather information without printing out a million pages.  Am I the only one that gets lost on manufacturers websites?  They often [...]

Way back, before little H was born, I was writing quite a bit.  Sometimes I would sit down and blast out a couple thousand words.  I’d finish my session and leave my desk believing that I was on a roll and my next session would be just as productive.  Not so.  I’d go back the next day and re-read what [...]

Here’s little H playing “Tinkle Star” on her piano.  I love how she rocks out at the end!  Cause if you’re going to do it….do it with heart