The Rules For New Years Eve
We live in a semi-civilized society. At least, I’d like to think that we do. As a mom of 3 children under the age of eight, I would like to think that I have learned a few life lesssons. Certainly a few lessons in etiquette. You don’t change a diaper on the table at Applebee’s. If [...]
Exactly how dumb ARE your kids?
(insert obligatory “forgive me, but I’ve been busy with the new website and please GO THERE and print off 3000 coupons from my sidebar so I can make $.14 andby the way, things have been pretty good around here, or at least, boring enough that I don’t want to blog about it, and the one thing [...]
Quick Test of Motherhood
When your daughter wakes up from her nap with a 102.5 fever and a horrible croup-y cough, do you panic and rush her to the hospital? call every mom you know and ask them what should be done before rushing her to the doctor? rush her to the doctor and insist that she be seen at [...]
Can I give my mother a medal, but not tell her?
After all these years, I certainly can’t start telling her NOW that she was a good parent! When I was a child, we belonged to HoityToityPool. Every day we would get in the car and be there by noon and stay all day, often ordering in dinner of pizza and staying until they kicked us [...]
Perhaps I was just looking for more blog fodder?
….because I know that this decision will be a source of unlimited pissed-offedness. We joined the YMCA today. Not exactly earth-shattering news, I know. Except that just two short years ago, I cancelled my membership and told the Director that she would be ice-skating in Hades before she got another penny from me. What can [...]
Someone grab me some cheese!
Caution: some serious self-pity & whining follows Something has to give, and I don’t know what it is…nor is there anything that I want to give up (aside from scrubbing toilets, but that isn’t really an option). I don’t know what has happened recently. My children are still wonderful and I love my husband….I just can’t figure out [...]
There’s such a thing as being TOO honest
Me: Prince #1, how was school? P1: Good! Me: Where’s my “Hello Kiss”? P1: Oh yeah (gives me huge kiss and hug). Me: Wow! That was a great hug! P1: I know – can I have 3 cookies? Me: Is that the only reason you gave me such a great hug? P1: yes
Finally I’m “That Mean Lady Over There”
I knew that this day would come, I just didn’t think it would be so soon! Putting aside the sheer idiocy of entrusting all of the prop-placement (which they screwed up for our group last night, causing the parents who were watching rehearsal to start clapping to the tune of the song in order to [...]
So about this New Math….
There are certain things that I heard when I was younger that I swore I would never be old enough, dumb enough or dorky enough to say. And yet I find myself saying them these days: “I don’t understand this new math”: well I’m sorry, but I don’t. If you have a child in K-6th [...]
Life with Regan
No – not Ronald Reagan. I DO know how to spell (although I am old enough to remember Reagan and his lovely policies that helped my family to do so well while the rest of the country got screwed, but I digress). I’m talking about this Regan: Or as she is known in our family: [...]
