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Sunny Sunny Friday!
Today has been a bag full of FUN! My son has fall break and we are livin’ it up! We are taking walks, cleaning out the car, planting “gardens” (he doesn’t seem to care…
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It’s Just a Song.. I know.
There’s a Ray Charles song that I can remember my grandmother singing when I was a girl. Everytime I hear it, I can picture her singing it – it is so vivid I can remember…
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It’s All About the Candy. And Making Mommy Proud.
Wow. Halloween was – how should I put it – nuts. Maggie opted out of her ingenius chicken costume – even though picking it out was, what I believe, to be one of the…
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God Bless Daylight Savings Time…
Holy Mother of Poindexter… It’s 643am and I have both kids dressed, fed and ready to leave for school. Since we are 45minutes ahead of schedule I figured I would write to praise this…
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Autumnal Bliss and Frolicky Tots
Somehow I scored a weekend off of work and was able to have a much needed date day/night with my son. Saturday we started the day off right with several very impressive estate sales…
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Mail Order Ants
We got them.. The moment my son has been waiting for for weeks! Uncle Milton’s Ant Farm Company finally sent us our tube of ants. Tube of ants? When I opened the box, I…
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Big Hands, I Know You’re the One
Does the fact the my two year old daughter goes around singing songs about masterbation make me a bad parent? I can’t believe I just opened up that can of worms. But I feel…
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Dollar Signs in Their Slimy Little Eyes
It’s funny – when you owe someone money, say a creditor, they are MORE than present in your life.. The phone calls.. The fear-inducing letters from “law firms”.. The mean, bully of a collector…
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“Mean Mommy…. Hate Mommy! Hate HER!”
Where my daughter learned the word “hate” I still can’t fathom.. I’m sure it came from me screaming about hating the ridiculous driver in front of me at some point in our day, but…
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High School Reunions…
Happiness is watching five of the snobbiest girls from your high school shaking their very hefty bottoms to “Hey Macarena” at your ten year reunion. It was dizzying. I hate that I got so…