I have met quite a few people through this blog. Some really awesome people, in fact. And I have become good friends with a handful of them. One of my new friends is quite possibly the kindest and most thoughtful person I know. Ever since I “met” her when she wrote that first comment on […]
Archives for June 2013
Has anybody seen my “yoga” pants?
I don’t know if you know this, but last weekend, Jenifer Aniston wore a dress. For the second time. In two years. Out in public. That is some newsworthy shit right there. Yep. This dress, worn to a wedding last weekend and also to her handprinting ceremony in 2011, got her on the cover of […]
If you can dream it, you can do it. ~Walt Disney
Yesterday there was a 5 mile race in town. I was a little bit torn as to whether or not I would run in it because Number 3 and 4 had a swim meet yesterday morning too. And I don’t like to miss seeing them swim. In fact, I never have. But I really wanted […]
That bites.
I used to teach with someone whose daughter was a bit of a handful. I had a lot to say about her. And her daughter. Behind her back. She’s a teacher. She should have a handle on that. She should know better. That’s ridiculous. Her daughter was getting in trouble for, among other things, biting […]
To whoever decapitated Number 5’s Barbie…Thank you.
I’ve said before that I have never been a girlie girl. At recess in elementary school, I was the girl who was playing kickball with the boys on the baseball field. Sports and games? Yes. Dolls and pretend crap with other girls? No. We always had big, Rockwellian Christmases growing up. We’d go to my […]
You can have 18 ridiculous birthday parties. Or… you can go to college.
So what happened to actually making a kid wait for stuff? You know how I feel about birthday parties. A Chuck E. Cheese birthday party would have been a really big fucking deal for me when I was a kid. It is not a big deal for most kids now. It’s an expectation. When did […]