Halloween Candy Anyone?

Hubby bought way too much candy for Halloween and even with all the trick or treaters that came last night, we still have a lot of candy in the house.   Even with me contributing and eating more than my share of candy, there’s still at least 5 unopened bags of candy on the counter.  So [...]

Samoa (the good, the bad, & the ugly)

Finally, here is the promised report about our trip to Samoa.  Sorry this took so long in coming Jody. I’m going to try and be better about serving up some koko samoa on a regular basis from here on out:-). 
Samoa, what can I say?  Samoa is er…. still Samoa.   My last visit to Samoa was about [...]

Conversations from the road

Road trips.  Yeah, that other great American past-time.  Hitting the road with the whole family and the dog.  In our case, it’s the whole family minus the dog.  Sorry animal lovers, I do like animals as long as they don’t come near me and as long as they live in someone else’s house.
Road trips are often an exercise [...]

Confessions of a 40-something Samoan woman

I was getting my daily dose of political news today on cnn.com when I saw a  link to this article,  Confessions of a 40-something woman.  Being a 40-something woman myself, it immediately caught my attention and of course I just had to read it.   Boy am I glad I did.  I loved it.  Kudos to Lisa [...]

Reclaiming My Waistline (I Hope)

A good friend of mine, who also happens to be a prolific blogger wrote a post detailing her plan to lose weight by May.   There is a performance that she is getting ready for in May and apparently there is a special costume involved.  So she has posted her intentions for all to see.   A smart thing really as [...]

Kokorice and toast

I got up very late this morning due to the fact that I have a bit of a cold.  Well, that wasn’t the only reason.  I did stay up til 3 in the morning reading.  I seem to have frequent bouts of insomnia these days.  I’ve heard that this can be attributed to age, well, [...]

Samoan-American

Undoubtedly, many of our kids who are born and raised outside of Samoa face a real dilemma. 
On the one hand, they have it easy.  Real easy in a lot of ways. After all, Samoan kids growing up in America (like mine for example) enjoy the kind of life that those who are growing up in Samoa can only [...]

You can take the girl out of Samoa but …

In some ways it feels as if time is just flying by.  Here it is October already, a whole month has come and gone and I didn’t post anything.  Shame on me!  All my good intentions for posting regularly down the drain… oh well.
In my defense, I have been pretty busy most of the time.  This is [...]

Hello… out there!

Boy, sure has been a long time.  Much too long.  Feels like I neglected a good friend but it’s been one heck of summer.
Let’s see, where do I begin.  Well, in the last couple of months, we moved cross country from the East Coast back to the West coast.  Moving was such a pain this time.  The military [...]

A Stroll Down Memory Lane

We’ve been working hard these last few days trying to get everything packed, cleaned, and organized for our upcoming move. The boys were packing books and stuff when they came across old photo albums. So, of course, everything had to stop so that we could all take a look at all those old photos.
There were [...]