http://www.engleberts.net You know you wish you lived here Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:19:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In Violet's never-ending quest to try every sprot known to mankind, she recently traded the Spring soccer season for a try at softball. Tryouts are in 3 weeks. As usual, this will require the purchase of even more sports equipment. We've done so many sprots with various kids over the ... http://www.engleberts.net/2009/03/08/private-correspondence/ The best part of Valentine's day in Violet's world for the last couple of years has been the construction of the absolutely positively perfect Valentine's box. This is her last year in elementary school and her classmates were planning elaborate boxes because (according to Violet) they knew she would be ... http://www.engleberts.net/2009/02/16/valentine-box-part-iii/ In the blogosphere, 2009 is supposed to be The Year of the Mom. The idea is to take better care of yourself this year, you know, make yourself at least as high of a priority as say getting the trash to curb before 6am every Monday or making sure the ... http://www.engleberts.net/2009/02/14/best-valentine-ever/ Yeah, yeah, Violet had a birthday on Friday and I will post about that soon. In the meantime, Violet's homework assignment was to make a list of 100 things that she likes. These make me smile: Monkeys Clean Things Fred Composition Notebooks Soap The word TULIPS Evil pencil sharpeners Running out of time Laundry smell (clean laundry I hope) Frillys My ... http://www.engleberts.net/2009/02/04/my-favorite-violets-favorites/ There was a time when we lived in a snowy, snowy place. Our lives were kind of like this for what seemed like 6 months of the year: When we lived there, our kids did all of the normal snow things like having snowball fights, and building snow tunnels. There were snow ... http://www.engleberts.net/2009/01/28/what-ever-happened-to-snowmen-and-snow-angels/ Dear Mrs. Jones, I wish to clarify that I am not now, nor have I ever been, an exotic dancer. I work at Home Depot and I told my daughter how hectic it was last week before the blizzard hit. I told her we sold out every single shovel ... http://www.engleberts.net/2009/01/22/still-cracking-up/ http://www.engleberts.net/2009/01/21/my-new-grandchild/ Girls Weekend! woo! Originally uploaded by venglebert http://www.engleberts.net/2009/01/18/girls-weekend-woo/ UPDATED! in response to Amber's question about what's really going on here. Yes, the person (possibly me) will be standing there with a stunned /Oh Crap! expression while a dumpster is dropped on their head, mainly because there is no where else they can go to have a puff or ... http://www.engleberts.net/2009/01/15/what-im-thinking-in-my-break-area/ You make your own from Legos http://www.engleberts.net/2009/01/13/when-you-dont-get-rock-band-for-christmas/