I don’t know what there is to say in an “About” page that won’t be said eventually in blogging. I mean, honestly, it’s a blog. The whole purpose is to tell it all, right? Ok, maybe not all, but lots. So this is the up front version of that? Like, skip to the end of the book type reading?

I’m a townie. I grew up in the town I live in. In the house I live in. Creepy, and yet comforting. Pretty much everyone from here has left and moved on, but not me. My two kids go to the same grade school I went to, they will graduate from my high school. I’m hoping it will be their grades that trump my legacy there (not extremely difficult, I have to add), and not their antics. My poor suffering husband had to move up here to the northwest suburbs from the south side; it’s hard living up north here, with our trees, and open spaces, and our crooked roads that to this day make him shake his fist at the lack of planning whenever he drives. How long has he been long suffering you may ask? Fourteen years as of 2009, that poor man.

I have strange and as yet undiagnosed condition giving me medical symptoms that we will get into, and lots of plans to get that worked out. Riveting, I’m sure. I work really hard doing what seems to be an endless list of major projects around my childhood home, and sometimes we even finish them! I take pictures, lots and lots of pictures that you might want to see. If not, please avert your eyes because they will be everywhere. I garden, I camp, I sew, I fish, I cook, I collect vinyl, and smooshed pennies.  I have lots of friends that I do fun stuff with sometimes, and once in a while you might even catch a glimpse of me hanging with my extended family. I have BIG TIME plans to green up around here, and I daydream. A lot. I guess it’s been going on since I was a wee girl, because its on all of my report cards and progress reports. It used to be considered a problem, but now that I’m in charge I give myself permission.

Oh, and at least once a year we celebrate kid day at the Frank house. And yes, I am fully aware that most consider every day to be kid day. That’s how I retain my status as Most. Fabulous. Mom. EVER.