Some families have Game Night. Some families have Movie Night. Our family, as announced by my son Logan last night, has Ear Wax…
I know all of you couldn’t start your New Year without getting the answers to my Christmas Quiz, so here I am to avail you…
The holiday party has been thrown and cleaned up after. The Christmas shopping is done and the presents wrapped. The cookies have been baked, the…
A Very Toddler Christmas (The Twelve Days of Christmas) 1. On the first day of Christ-mas, my tod-dler broke for me, the car-rot nose off…
Being a work-at-home mom gets me no respect. I’ve got one foot in happy homemaker land and one foot in driven career woman terrain and…
The turkey bones and leftovers have been made into soup. The relatives have packed up and headed home. And the kids have gone back to…
My kids are out of school this week for the Thanksgiving break. I was excited about sleeping in today instead of having to wake and…
I was up three times night before last, once to change his diaper. Last night he made it until 4:30 a.m. and I was grateful…
I truly believe I saved my daughter life, and possibly our whole family’s lives, last week. And all because of a persistent smell of fish…
Twas the Monday after Halloween And all through the house Half-eaten candy and wrappers Were scattered about Discarded costumes Once provoking dread Lay in heaps…
My son Logan celebrated his 9th birthday this weekend by inviting a few friends to join him for some indoor go-cart racing and then a…
My son may look like his father but he wakes up like his mother. Grumpy, growly and not fit for human interaction for at least…
In an ongoing effort to be able to eat chili cheese fries and all the Ranch dressing I could blissfully drown myself in (the kind…
Had to help my son with his 3rd grade book report project this last week. Here’s what went well with it: He was prepared.…
Back by popular demand… It is inevitable that you will become an underwear sniffer in an effort to do less laundry. You will…
Just a few observations I’ve made in my brief mom career: School “Picture Day” becomes a battle of looking cool vs. looking adorable after…
It‘s my children’s favorite week at school this week. Mr. Bluestein comes to teach them folk dance and folk music appreciation. For me personally,…
If patience is a virtue, my general moral excellence has a big blemish on it. At least I’m consistent. I’ve always been this way.…
I always call my mom on my sister’s birthday. She would’ve been 32 this August. As the years have passed, it has not been…
I’ve been in training for the Mommy Olympics for nearly a decade. That is if you count my pregnancy where I started competing in Stretch-Marks for…