Right now my life is revolving around our Texas Fallen Heroes Memorial Ride & Cook-Off.  I eat, sleep, and breath this fundraiser pretty much non-stop.  It’s getting pretty old around this house and with my friends and family.  I’m pretty sure John is ready to shove me into the hall closet and I get the evil eye from Catherine.  While I am loving the experience of planning the event, I am about ready to get this behind me.  I’m way too stressed about how it’s going to turn out and …

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It has been freezing or near freezing temperatures in Houston for over a week now.  My birdbath is frozen solid.  We have a bucket on the back porch that is frozen.  This is just not right!  We live on the Gulf of Mexico where it’s warm most of the time and dang near too hot all of the other time.  It’s too cold to go outside to play, so Cat and I both have cabin fever.  Luckily school started back up for her, so at least …

We are babysitting John’s mother’s cat Rosie.  This cat about drives me insane because she talks non-stop (kind of like Catherine), amongst other things.  Anyway, John brought her to the house today in her crate and so she was not a happy camper.  Catherine however was only too happy to try and befriend Rosie.  I swear this child is going to be a vet when she grows up.  Anyway, here is one of her many exchanges she had while we let Rosie settle for awhile in her crate.  It’s hard …

Over the holidays we ran into this rooster that was a little bit on the nutty side.  For some reason he was territorial with the Christmas tent at the Hunt Club Farms.  He came running up to us and started pecking at our feet, chasing us, kicking dust up at us, growling, and flapping his wings.  It was hilarious to watch him get riled up, and that didn’t take much!  He was a beautiful rooster but I think he had a few screws loose upstairs.

I hate to do this to you but right now life is just to hectic to write out a long post, so I am going to do the trusty bullet list to catch you up on life at the Norris household.

The last few weeks have seemed to feel a bit odd and a bit off to me.  Maybe it’s because we were hit with colder weather much sooner than normal and cold, wet weather always tends to throw me off even though I love it
We celebrated our family Christmas day …

So, we were pretty excited here in Houston when we found out about four days ago that it would be snowing here in Houston.  Snow in and around the Gulf of Mexico is like some sort of miracle.  The whole phrase, ‘when hell freezes over’ really means something to us when it gets below 60 degrees.  When they forecast snow, we start wondering if we should find a way to rework that phrase.  None-the-less, when I woke up this morning I was excited like it was Christmas morning.  I was …

Thank you for all of the birthday well wishes!  While I missed John today (he was at work), I had a wonderful time with my other loved ones, Scott & Elisa, Lisa & Ken, and of course my very own Catherine.  I had a great day today and I feel so incredibly blessed!!

The end of summer up until now has been a busy, busy time for me.  A lot of criss-crossing across the country has made for a very time-strapped and tired person.  Trust me, I am not complaining in the least!  I have loved every minute of it but I have had to put some things on the back burner, for example blogging.  I am usually so tired by the end of the day that I don’t feeling like devoting one more minute to writing, or thinking, or anything more than …

I am not going to lie to you.  My life is not perfect.  My life is full of stressors, many I have chosen and some I have not.  Most days I like a packed schedule,  but I really enjoy my downtime as well.  I am driven, especially when it’s something I am passionate about, however, I have a lazy streak that can sometimes get the better of me.  I enjoy my family and friends more than anything but sometimes I let my work take precedence, although I try not to …

I have come to a crossroad with this blog and I am not sure how I am going to proceed.  I’ve mentioned it before but I have seriously been considering closing this blog for a while, if not for good.  I used to feel  a lot of joy from posting about our lives, our work, and our passions.  I really enjoyed the feedback that I would get from posting about a problem or when I had a question about something.  I felt like I was able to use words as …

I have been looking forward to today for a while now. Catherine goes completely nuts over dogs and I try to take her to events and stores that have dogs so she can enjoy them to their fullest (I think she gets a bit bored with our two dogs). Houston has a fairly large dog show and so I knew she would just love it…and she did! She wanted to pet all of the dogs and hold everyone’s leashes. She would watch a dog getting groomed …

I had a rather humorous experience the other day that just reminded me how much my life is so yin and yang.  I was trying to get my two year old daughter off the toilet, when I somehow ended up with bodily fluids on my left hand and in my right hand my phone was ringing because a very well known fire chief was calling me.  I was flipping out because I had poop on one hand (not sure how it happened) and that this particular person was calling …