Spring break!

We headed out for spring break this week and aside from being back North in the land of the trees and allergy attacks, we are having a great time!

House and Randomness

So building a house is like having a part time job. It is currently consuming any "spare" time I thought I had.

Which is why we have nothing much else to blog about. Here is some randomness from the last little while...

Heat Wave!

Our great friends, the Sims came to visit over the three-day weekend, and thankfully we were having some what of a heat wave!  We had so much fun enjoying good weather, food, conversation and company.  The kids were SO GLAD to see their friends again.  We had so much fun I hardly took any pictures.  Oh well!

Children

The events of last Friday in Newtown, Connecticut have affected me, just as I'm sure they have most of you:

shock, disbelief, anger, fear, anguish.  It is unfathomable that something like this could happen, let alone did.  I have a 5 and an 8 year old.  They go go a school with a layout very, very similar to the online photos of Sandy Hook.  My kindergartner is in that room right across the hall from the office. 

It is, as I said, beyond my comprehension that such an evil could happen in such a "safe" place in such a "safe" community.  But, I guess that's just it.  Our schools, our busses, our airports, our malls, our movie theaters, and on and on AREN'T as safe as we'd like them to be.  I'm not here to discuss gun control or legislation.  I'm not here to voice my opinion on "gun free zones," although I am slowly formulating what my idea of a solution might include.  I'm just here to say this:

Mental illness is real.  And it's hard.  It doesn't happen only to "bad" people.  It just happens to people.  Children, adults, religious and non.  In this human experience, you don't get to pick your own trials, or the trials of your own children.  I read an article shortly after the shooting, for which I will post the link below.  It is brave, insightful, and right on target.  If anything is sure to make a difference, to stop, or stem the flow of these horrific tragedies, surely it is accessible, affordable mental health that doesn't come with a scarlet letter.  

http://anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.com/2012/12/thinking-unthinkable.html

I apologize to any of you who read my other blog, as I am posting this in both places.

It Has Begun!

Finally!!!

Snow Canyon

Enjoying our pass to snow canyon!

A New Corner of the Blogsphere

Hello all!  Just popping in to let you know that we have a new blog.  It is honestly not something that most of you will need (or even maybe want) to read.  BUT, you may know someone who does.  We are going to be blogging about our culinary and family experiences with food allergies and all the related baggage that goes along with them.  We are finally in a good place to deal with Hadden's allergies-we hope!- and are starting some life changes.  Just a side note, it will be a public blog and I WON'T be using my kids names, so those of you who know us, please try not to drop their names in any of the comments if you happen to comment.  Thanks!

I'll be hilighting what we are doing and why as well as posting recipes, ideas, cookbook reviews and more.  I had so much spare time, I thought I needed another project.  Ha, ha, ha, ha.....

www.weeatbeansandrice.blogspot.com