Seven children, nine mouths to feed, and very little time have turned me into a cashier snob at Shoprite. I don’t know any of their names, but I know their styles. I know if they are fast or slow. If they are friendly or miserable. I know if they love kids, or if they are […]
Archives for May 2013
Cause I’m cool like that. At least, I used to be.
I used to be the cool teacher. The one with the cool clothes. The one who dressed up like Brittany Spears for Halloween, and called the kids “Dude,” and said things like, “Do you dig?” The one who knew the lyrics to all the current songs and could identify any singer/rapper/actress/model on any page in […]
Yesterday I’d say I was magna cum laude.
Yesterday nobody stuffed an entire load of laundry in the toilet. No one broke a glass. There wasn’t a powder, or cereal, or toothpaste, or concealer, or white-out, or tampon, or bead, or band-aid, or paint, or poop, or nail polish, or fireplace ash, or shampoo, or conditioner, or powdered sugar extravaganza. When everything was […]
I wore a suit and I liked it.
Last summer I bought a bathing suit online. When I tried it on, well, this came to mind: So I threw it in the closet, and forgot about it. Until yesterday when we had a Memorial Day barbeque and pool party. And you know what? I took that suit out of my closet, tried it on, […]
I love a parade.
We live in a fairly small Connecticut town. Around 17,000 people. And every year we have a good, old-fashioned Memorial Day parade. The kids love to march in it. Yesterday Number 4 marched in it for the 3rd or 7th time, depending on who you ask. It is one of my favorite things about living […]
Drink, drank, drunk.
If I had a Top 10 list of the Worst. Days. Ever… Yesterday would have been on that list. Fo sho. But it was really my fault. I made an amateur strategical move. My husband was out in his shop working. And I went out there to ask him a question. And I left 5 children, 7 […]