Feb
12
We had record-breaking snowfall on Thursday & Friday (2/11 and 2/12/10) in the North Texas area. Approximately 12.5 inches of snow fell, beating the previous 24-hour record of 12.1 inches set in 1964. The most snow recorded in DFW in 1 day was 7.8 inches, set on 1/15/1964 and 1/14/1917. The snowfall began very early Thursday [...]
Dec
23
We had a movie night a few evenings ago and were left with some candy boxes. We came up with a creative way to reuse them — at least I think so! Tiger slept on the bed with those boxes on his paws for about 2 hours.
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Nov
07
The other day I was wondering around on the internet looking for an online retailer where I could purchase additional pieces of my favorite Czech porcelain, Zwiebelmuster. Along the way, I landed upon a blog written by a woman named Tanja, who moved to the US from the Czech Republic in the 1990’s. In her [...]
Jun
27
Camden had a very successful 2nd grade year. Wow, what an incredible difference from last year. He finished with an “A” average and is now reading above grade level. Last year we were told at his previous elementary school that we would need to retain him in 1st grade and they gave us a list [...]
May
17
We had a magnitude 3.3 earthquake in Dallas, Texas yesterday. I didn’t feel anything in Denton. However, John was at work just outside of DFW International Airport and felt the initial earthquake along with an after shock a little while later. He was actually on the phone with me when the first earthquake hit.
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Apr
23
How cool is this? We are the featured blog of the week at Blogging Fusion.
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Feb
08
15.2 pounds gone!
Update 2/22/09 - 18.2 pounds are now gone.
Update 4/6/09 - 26.0 pounds are now gone.
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Jan
28
Today we had a day off from school. I can assure you that I may have been happier than my students. All we’ve heard on the news since Monday was that an ice storm was approaching. The build-up from the meteorologists was infectious - the students were all hopeful to not have school today. I [...]
Jan
25
Last night I decided to renew all of the domains I currently own (13). I seem to have an addiction to purchasing .com’s. All but two of the domains below point back to leake-family.com. I took Camden’s website down as I hadn’t updated it since 2004. My former science class website was also taken down [...]
Jan
11
After a fantastic holiday and a lot of overindulging on my favorite foods, it’s now time I go back to my diet. I’ve been on many diets in the past (the Zone, South Beach, etc.) and I cannot seem to stick to them. 3 summers ago, I kept a food log on my laptop and [...]