You Heard Me! Comments and Likes and Goodwill Along the Way!


I’m going to continue this oversharing of my family, as well as boring details, umm, I mean, Delicious Minutiae, every day.  Yay! Read the rest of this entry »

2S2L — Not Just For Strangers Anymore


Most of the time I think *other* people are too stupid to live (2S2L)…and then the chickens come home to roost. Read the rest of this entry »

Stop Busting My Chops, Kid!


E is such a love.  He’s snips and snails and puppy dog tails.  He’s a little boy and that’s what he’s made of.  He’s also opinionated and bossy and full of the saucy.  He gives me a hard time and makes me crazy.

That’s what moms are made of.  Crazy.  I am supermom.

Today he piped up from the backseat, almost an hour into our drive, “You’re ruining some of my favorite songs, mom.  Please stop now.” Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes Our Elders Are Cranky Liars


Yesterday the kids and I went to Morton Arboretum to hang out with friends.  It looked to me like everyone and their brother, and their brother’s neighbor, and the neighbor’s stepson, were at the Arboretum yesterday.  This made for a parking lot reminiscent of Thunderdome, and there was one old man wearing a hat who wanted to pick a fight. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s A Reason Hamster Moms Eat Their Young


Yesterday we had a fabulous day at MRU.  The weather was superb, the friends were plentiful and entertaining, the kids seemed to really enjoy each other…

Then there was N.  My sweet, adorable, lovable N.  Quirky, argumentative, baffling N.  Sometimes I wonder: If I was a hamster, would I have eaten him as a baby? Read the rest of this entry »

Becoming Illiterate


I used to read.  A lot.  At the height of my blissful insanity I read four books in one day.  They weren’t all War and Peace, but they weren’t Magic Treehouse either.  Fast forward a decade and I’m becoming illiterate. Read the rest of this entry »

Monday Morning Quarterbacking


I was planning to do a weekly wrap-up of our previous week, but I can’t remember most of the details of what we did. Read the rest of this entry »

The Day the Music Died (but only temporarily, and it won’t happen again)


I’ve been away for awhile.  Not in jail or the looney bin or anything, but things got busy and all of a sudden more than a year went by.  I fully intended to resurrect the blog on the one year anniversary of the last post, but I think we can all deal with that particular deadline coming and going.  If you can’t hang with my tardiness, we probably shouldn’t be pretend online friends anymore.  Just saying. Read the rest of this entry »

Math for Families with Short Attention Spans


E says he doesn’t ever want to go to school.  In his opinion, this means he will not have to learn anything, ever.  He is absolutely addicted to math videos from the library.  Every time we go, he must check the shelves for new math videos.  He’s four, so that’s cool.  Maybe when he’s five I’ll let him know how much he’s learning…or maybe I’ll wait until he’s six and has moved on to Teaching Company stuff. Read the rest of this entry »

Back in the Blogging Saddle


I think I pretty much left my “four times a week” blog posting goal in its death throes several weeks ago.  When I checked in today I noticed a little bit of life around its blue tinged blog lips, so I will march on and hope for better consistency in the future. Read the rest of this entry »

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