Scariest Blog Ever!
Hello My Dears. Are you very, very afraid? Actually I’m the one that is scared. This is my first blog, ever. I turned 40 a few weeks ago and promised myself (several times over the past upteen years)...
View ArticleYou Just Can’t Scare a Housekeeper (or a Nurse)
There are just certain types of people, occupations rather, that you can’t scare. I heard a few ladies talking once about cleaning a house. (The house under discussion belonged to a friend of mine, but...
View ArticleThere is a hula-hoop under my coffee table.
For real, my dears! But I know if you’re a Mom that you didn’t doubt me for one second. We could all probably compare notes on this all day long. I remember distinctly having this moment of clarity...
View ArticleDon't Judge Me
What are you thinking?: I have a weakness for good mexican food, and bad cowboy hats.
View ArticleSometimes being a Mom is all about geography...
What are you thinking?: Like putting the jar with the ant in it an appropriate distance away from the box of leftover donuts
View ArticleI keep a corkscrew in my bathroom.
Yes, ma'ams, you heard me. I have a cheap, old-fashioned corkscrew in the bottom drawer in my bathroom. (No, it's not for wine. If you take wine into the tub I would highly recommend a pretty plastic...
View ArticleCould you do me a big favor?
What are you thinking?: Have you ever noticed that when people ask for a big favor, it's never a big deal. It's the little ones you have to worry about.
View ArticleDid You Get the Number of that School Bus That Ran Over Me?
School started how many weeks ago? I'm scared to look. But I'm pretty sure that I've seen one report card and then one progress report so that adds up to 9 weeks. I think. Suddenly every week morphs...
View ArticleI heard the "Thriller" music earlier
What are you thinking?: My son and his buddy were watching the video on the ipad. Made my 80s shoulders twitch just a little...
View Article"Mommy! My fortune said that my life would change within the next month!"
What are you thinking?: "Son, you're ten years old. If they change the color of Skittles, your life changes!"
View ArticleBallerina Down!
I took a rare few minutes one evening this week, and was laying in my bed reading. I had instrumental Christmas music playing. My son comes dancing through the room, doing his best Nutcracker...
View ArticleI heard myself gasp out loud in the car.
Yesterday after work I was driving to run some errands and do some Christmas shopping. A few hours earlier a friend had pulled me into their office at work to show me the breaking news about the school...
View ArticlePop out the 7 Habits CD from my car stereo...
What are you thinking?: and in goes Santa Baby!
View ArticleI Wanna Be Yoda
I Wanna Be Yoda! For all you non-Star Wars fans out there (does that automatically make you a Trekkie?) Yoda was all-knowing. Calm. Peaceful. Like a miniature Zen-something or other creature. Somehow...
View ArticleSome days it's all under control
What are you thinking?: And other days, you're just under some things. That is all.
View ArticleHow to Tame that Mountain of School Papers
Today, I organized a very old stack of memoribilia. For me, memoribilia is the other "stuff" I keep other than photos. This stack was all the cool stuff that my son had brought home from school that I...
View ArticleAlcoholic Cookies
So there are these cookies. The box (or the fancy cylinder Tin rather) calls them "cream-filled wafer-something" (Dang it, I just had to get up and go look again and I just read it 15 seconds ago...)...
View ArticleHow to Survive the "How Long is that Flight?"
I was lucky enough to get to go to Hawaii a few weeks ago for the first time. Crazy thing is, I get to go again in about five weeks. (Long story – Anyhow…) Since I knew that I was doing this again so...
View ArticleMom Moment: “Is This The Only Poop?”
I had a Mom Moment the other night. And this is how I knew that I was having a Mom Moment… because here are the words I heard myself say - “Is This The Only Poop?” There are those things you swore...
View ArticleHot Wings, Cold Date.
Heard this story this week and had to share with those of you that have been burned (or bored) by the dating pool. "I went to this place for happy hour to meet a guy for the first time. On the way...
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