Digging Out of Junkmail Hell

If you aren’t careful, junk mail can take over your life. In fact, Greg’s mom’s house was almost buried in it – to the point that when he had to clean it out, he hauled over 14 tons, yes, you read that right, 14 tons of junk mail to the recyclery. Hoarder’s even called us, yes…

Help, I’ve Fallen into Junkmail Hell and Can’t Get Up

What are you supposed do when you’ve fallen into Junkmail Hell and can’t get up? We recently moved Greg’s mom to a care facility closer to us and now her mail is coming to us – either forwarded (mostly billing statements and utilities and others who are slower to update a mailing address through a…

Parents Rejoice Everywhere – School is in Session

Today was the first day of school at the San Carlos Charter Learning Center, which now has all three of my boys as middle schoolers – two tweens and a teen. Hard to believe, but we are finished with the K-4 wing of the school. This our 9th year at Charter and we love it here!…

Summer Garden Spoils – Part 2

This post is a followup to the Summer Gardens at the Their Best. On our all school clean up day, part of the clean up efforts focused on the CLC Garden and harvesting what was left from the summer. It turned out to be  a fabulous “CLC Farmer’s Market.” I even got to harvest some…