http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/vemckenna1/Toddlers, teens and in-betweens, not to mention too many pets and encroaching middle age. Only one thing to do..laugh about it! Maybe you'll see a bit of your own crazy life in mine. Take a look!hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/vemckenna1/478742I love swimming with the kids. It's so relaxing. I especially love going to the waterpark where you get to spend $25 on a pack of Corn Nuts and a small soda. Bringing your own food into our local park is against the rules and requires a full body search and a DNA sample, but aside from that, the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/vemckenna1/473858I don’t fly. Some people fear spiders, some people fear their Mother- in- Law, I however, have a horrible fear of falling. Therefore, I avoid bridges, elevators, and upper deck stadium seats. So when we decided to fly to San Diego for our vacation, the panic set in early on. The nightmares began...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/vemckenna1/467099We took a little trip last weekend to Chico. I needed to pay homage to my own personal Mecca, The Sierra Nevada Brewery. The other reason we traveled there was for a Chico State Alumni Golf Tournament that my husband and 2 sons were playing in. It was just a one night stay, but if you eyed our...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/vemckenna1/461251My husband and I will soon be celebrating our 15th Anniversary. Sometimes it feels like just yesterday we gazed into each others eyes and vowed to love each other forever. More often it feels like an eternity. Through the birth of each child, the family vactions, holidays, teenage drivers, first...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/vemckenna1/459723Wasn’t it just a few weeks ago that I was moaning about the unseasonably cold weather and threatening to burn my flannel pajamas and any other garment referred to as "cozy’? Itching to unearth my shorts from the garage and wear the flip flops I purchased in March. Of course once the mercury did...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/vemckenna1/455992I ran away from home last week. I got in my car, told no one in my family I was leaving and drove away. Everyone was screaming at my house. Sometimes I think we could be the next Dr. Phil Family. Sadly, once I left my driveway, I had nowhere to go. I ended up in the Long's Drugs parking lot. I...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/vemckenna1/454339I am now thoroughly convinced that the Vacation Gods hate us and will never allow us to have the Brady Bunch vacation I've always dreamed of. My kids suggest camping every summer and I'd rather have gum surgery than sit in the dirt swatting at bees as I toast my marshmallow on a twig.I decided to...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/vemckenna1/448805The time had come. After years of abuse nursing 5 babies, each one for far too long, the damage had been done. There was no choice but to go under the knife. And so I made the appointment. I made sure my husband could get the time off from work. My husband, by the way, was more than eager to...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/vemckenna1/437389Don’t you just love school projects? My son mentioned he had to do a report on George Washington a couple of weeks ago. "Great" I said, hoping as usual that I wouldn’t have to do much... "So what do you have to do?" I asked. "Oh, it’s kinda like a book report." He answered. I can use the...