No. YOU shut up.

by | Apr 20, 2010 | Blog | 0 comments

What do you do when the mom is crabby? I mean seriously, absolutely crabby? I just spent an hour slumped in my favorite chair, arms crossed, bottom lip out, pouting. Yes, pouting. Just kind of hanging out and waiting for the opportunity to yell “No. YOU shut... Read more...'

The things I do for my kids….

by | Apr 11, 2010 | Blog | 3 comments

I’m writing this on the upper deck seating area of an enormous hotel waterpark…a generous gift from my sister and her husband. The kids are having a ball. And not just my kids; there are probably 500 offspring running and yelling around this place. Oh,... Read more...'

What’s for lunch?

by | Apr 5, 2010 | Blog | 1 comment

I’m fighting a dangerous mental habit. With five kids and a small business I am constantly beset with errands that I urgently need to do RIGHT NOW and find myself desperately wishing huge chunks of my life away. “If I can just make it through this... Read more...'

Pretty! Shiny!

by | Apr 2, 2010 | Blog | 0 comments

Somehow I have become enamored of diamonds. Big, shiny, show-stopping pieces. Something Elizabeth Taylor or Zsa Zsa Gabor would have worn back in the day. Yes! The Hope diamond; cursed or not, I’d like to own it, just for a little while.   I know, it’s... Read more...'

Don’t ask me, I just live here.

by | Mar 22, 2010 | Blog | 0 comments

I think that my inattentive parenting is finally starting to pay off. A few days without clean school uniforms and my daughter has decided that I can’t be trusted and has begun to do her own laundry. Today my son got sick of waiting for me and pulled out the... Read more...'

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