The Queen Mum Lives

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The scene:  An outing this morning with several friends at the local Chick Fil’A (it has a playland) Teller:  “that will me $13.34″ Me:  hands him a $20 Teller: “oh – wow.  Look at that!” Me:  “what?” Teller:  “your change is $6.66.  What a horrible number!” Me:  “yeah – isn’t that funny? Teller:  “no really – [...]

Prince #1:  “Mo-om!  You have to change to JarJar, super jump up, change back, use the force to open that door then kill all the guys that come out then super jump back for me.  Come on mom – do it quick! Mo-om!  C’mon I told you what to do! Daddy!  Can you come play for mommy?  [...]

It seems that my name has been previously discussed and decided upon in my neighborhood.  Just call me BarbieMommy!  It has something to do with the fact that I wash my hair each day and wear makeup.  And that I don’t take my kids to the bus stop in my pajamas.  And that I like to [...]

I wrote the other day about how my husband was one step away from getting shoved down the garbage disposal (except that I don’t have steps right now…..just subflooring to walk on) He redeemed himself with this: Perhaps not my first choice of dishwashers, but considering I have lived 10 years with the builder-grade POS dishwasher [...]

Tonight is the night!  No husband, no children.  I get to hang out with 11 other women as we talk about everything from diaper rashes to sex toys.  PerfectCatholicMommy will drink too much and share way too much info.  StickInHerAssMommy will silently condemn us to an afterlife in the fiery pits of Hell because of the things [...]

Well, I wasn’t really herding cats.  It was 16 First Graders.  Same thing, really.  For some insane reason, I signed up to help out with the First Grade Act for the annual Variety show at my son’s school. Note:  I said “help”. So what happened at the first organizational meeting?  The HeadHonchos declared that we [...]

I hate this thing.  I really really hate it.  I hate it with a passion usually only reserved for cell phones. It’s bad enough that it seems to have turned my kids in to zombies.  They only get to play for 1 hour per day.  But if they aren’t playing it, they are asking if [...]

I thought the boys were getting a Wii for Christmas because they had been playing on an old Nintendo 64 and it was time to update it. I thought they were getting one because we were fairly certain that Prince #1 would be the only one in his first-grade class who didn’t have one unless [...]

I learned that parenting a girl (even a one-year old girl) is vastly different than raising boys.  The Queen was given her nickname by the time we were out of the hospital because her real name is Elizabeth.  She has spent the last 18-months doing everything to live up to her nickname.  That is one high-maintenance [...]

Christmas is finally over….only 362 more days until my next nervous breakdown. This year was supposed to be the best Christmas of my adult life. I can’t say “my whole life”, because nothing will ever compare to the year that my father gave both my sister and I each our own TVs for our room [...]