Almost American

I spent 2 hours on Saturday morning outside our local supermarket helping my daughter's Girl Scout troop sell crack cookies. I thought ...

As it's MLK Day, there is no school today. I was determined not to have the children stay inside watching TV all day (as they would if I...

A few days ago Sarah was commenting that it was a bit parky in Oklahoma. I was feeling quite happy that it was warmer here up north. Not a...

The fridge was just a fridge when I was growing up. Nowadays, we decorate our fridges with magnets, kids' artwork, postcards, calendars,...

No snow here, but it still feels like Christmas. Thanks again to LJB at Crankymonkeys for some new ornaments for the tree! Santa brought ...

LBJ at Crankymonkeys in London had a giveaway of some Christmas ornaments and I won! It made my day - thanks LBJ! If you haven't visi...

Colleagues at work are obsessed with TV programs like Dancing with the Stars and get into protracted conversations at lunchtime over who the...

Kathryn at Marmite and Fluff tagged me. The rules are: 1. Link to the person who tagged you.  Done. 2. Paste these rules on your blog p...

I am one of those mothers who likes to take her kids to museums for fun and buy her kids educational toys. Fortunately, most of the time ...

English teachers in non-English-speaking countries face the dilemma of which English to teach. Often their school will have a preference fo...

Every Halloween we decorate our front step with carved pumpkins. When I say 'we', I really mean DH. I buy the pumpkins, but he's...

I let DS play some games on my iPod Touch one time when we were waiting at the doctor's office and ever since then he begs me on a regul...

 . . . or the mapping of stereotypes, from visual artist, graphic designer and illustrator Yanko Tsvetkov's blog . (Go to his blog to se...

When we were at Chessington, I saw this sign at the top of a flight of stairs. I couldn't read it at first, so went a little closer. Hmm...

Blue Planet Aquarium was selling food for visitors to feed to the ducks. But right next to the vending machine full of duck food was this s...

The children were so stunned by these signs at the side of the road in the UK that they took pictures of them.

It was a strange feeling to be back in the UK after so long (over 4 years) away. It didn't exactly feel like home any more but it wasn...

Our vacation to the UK was almost over before it began. On the flight over, British Airways had assigned me a seat in a different row to DH ...

(Image from Matt Kursmark .) My DH blogged over here about the 36 hour day that started our vacation in the UK. Apparently the madness of t...