November 2, 2009 by tina.

Thought I should let you know that the mustache is gone. (Insert happy dance here.) All the money raised went to a very good cause, but I gotta tell you, I’m incredibly happy that it’s done. After the judging on Friday night, we got a trimmer and started cleaning up faces. They all look so nice!!!

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October 25, 2009 by tina.

I’ve had this one on my shelf for a very long time. Someone recommended it to me and I jumped right in and bought it. But then every time I picked it up off the shelf and read the back I put it back down. Well last night, during a strong bout of procrastination, I picked it up again. I read the first few pages and was hooked. At 3AM, I finally forced myself to close it and go to sleep and today it has been murder to NOT hole up and find out how it ends. It’s a REALLY good one!!!

Just realized that I haven’t mentioned that it’s called “The Time Traveler’s Wife.” Unless something totally freakish happens in the last 100 pages, I highly recommend it!

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October 25, 2009 by tina.

Our Chicken Philly was just included in The Second Supper’s 10 Best Sandwiches in La Crosse!!! It didn’t list an official ranking number but we were listed second and our write up was longer that ALL the other ones. That means that it’s the best, right? Briana describes the phenomenal goodness of the Chicken Philly on a Sun-dried Tomato Basil bun with fantastic detail and she sounds fun too! Now I just have to buy a frame….

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October 19, 2009 by tina.

My husband has grown a mustache. I don’t like it. Actually, that’s a pretty big understatement. He looks just like his older brother which I find to be really creepy. So while the actual stache doesn’t look awful, I can’t look him in the face without wanting to laugh at him. Now, I feel the need to explain because he didn’t do this just because he wanted to. The La Crosse fire department is currently involved in their first annual “Stache Bash.” It is an MDA fundraiser so each participant bought in for $20 and was officially clean shaven on September 30th and the contest will be held on October 30th. Of course, the bash will involve tip boards and other fund raising efforts….and maybe some beer. Each “grower” forfeits their entry fee and suffers tremendous ridicule if they cave in and shave it off before the 30th. (They may have to pay another $20 as an extra punishment but I’m not sure.) There are five categories for our celebrity judges to critique and analyze. But I think, more importantly, that the wives that have suffered all month should win all the prizes. It will be a really fun time and I think I’ll bring a razor!

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October 8, 2009 by tina.

I gotta tell you that I’m excited for fall food. Not sure how the rest of you are but when it gets cooler outside, our family’s menu changes. You start pulling out the recipes for casseroles and chili. Today, I even had the forethought to put something in the crock pot so that I didn’t have to think about dinner at all! That’s not to say that we don’t still grill occasionally over the winter, we just don’t do it six nights per week.

Happy warm belly to you all!

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September 28, 2009 by tina.

I try not to make excuses but I’m totally going to blame my lack of blogging on my new phone. How do you figure, you might ask. Well, I get all my email on my phone so I deal with the very important ones right away, delete the trash and save the not-as-important for another time. Therefore, I don’t open and start up my actual computer anywhere near as often as I used to. Without starting up my computer, I don’t spend any time on the internet. This has seriously cut into my Facebook time and I don’t Twitter as much, and, CLEARLY, I don’t ever blog anymore!

I realize that there is no one to blame but myself, but I’m hoping that now that I have discovered the reason behind my lack of online activity, I will take steps to correct the problem! But the good news is that Facebook hasn’t consumed hours of my life…see, there’s always a plus side!

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September 9, 2009 by tina.

I know, we just got back from a family vacation! But Lance and I are headed to Memphis for a long weekend. Just the grown ups. We are very excited and I’m sure I will tell you all about it in next week’s blogs!

Have a great weekend!

PS. We’ll check for “pretty little things” in the Jungle Room!

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September 8, 2009 by tina.

Sometimes it’s not so great to be the boss.

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September 7, 2009 by tina.

Today was my Mom’s 71st birthday. You may or may not know her but she opened the first Cheese Corner in Viroqua in 1986. She’s amazing. We didn’t really do a spectacular job of honoring that today. I mean, we could have probably come up with a better plan than to have her drive up to La Crosse to see us, take her to Rudy’s for lunch (although it was mighty tasty), take her to the bookstore for a browse then bring her back to our house and have my daughters nag her until she played badmitton with them. But I gotta say, we had a nice day and I only hope that when I’m 71, I will be playing badmitton with my grandkids!

Happy Birthday, Mama!

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September 3, 2009 by tina.

I don’t know if you’ve met my daughter, Emma, or not but she is indescribable. I love her to death and she is a true mystery. Her bedroom is decorated in Spiderman colors and posters, her favorite colors are any that she deems “boyish,” she wears Packer or Badger shirts virtually every day. Don’t be fooled, she has an incredibly soft side, but even her dress clothes have to walk a fine line with being “too girlish.” But she is a tiny little bit of a thing that I’m not even sure tips the scale past 50 pounds and she’s almost 10 years old. Well, she surprised even me yesterday. She brought home the brochure from the elementary strings program and told us that she wants to play the string bass. Now as her supportive parents we had to fight the urge to giggle and tell her that sounded great when all the while, I’m trying to picture her behind an instrument three times her size. Don’t get me wrong-I truly think it is great! But she has to check with the director to see if she’s tall enough…see why it makes me giggle?

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