16 Pictures (Just About) All Parents Will Take 1. the my-kid-made-a-big-f*cking-mess picture 2. the first-day-of-school picture 3. the I-smeared-my-food-on-my-face picture 4. the beach/vacation picture 5. the baby and the pet picture 6. the look-my-kid-is-sleeping-with-part-of-his-body-sticking-out-of-the-crib picture 7. the naked baby on the stomach picture 8. the how-the-eff-did-my-kid-get-there? picture 9. the first-birthday-cake picture 10. the let’s-dress-our-kids-up-in-matching-Christmas-stuff picture […]
Archives for September 2013
God Money
I’m running the NYC Marathon in 40 days. I have a friend who is also running it, and her son is in the same class as Number 3. Last week after Number 3’s Open House, we were talking. My friend asked me what I was doing the night before the race. When was I going […]
Success is a journey, not a destination. Although the destination is pretty freaking awesome.
8 months ago, I allowed someone to take my picture. Maybe not a big deal, you say. But to me, it was. Because I felt really, REALLY bad about the way that I looked. The past 8 years have been spent avoiding having my picture taken. At all costs. And there were some heavy costs. […]
A word (or nine hundred) to the so-called “wise.”
I’m just a girl writing a blog. A girl, with a bunch of kids, writing a blog. A girl, with a bunch of kids, whom she loves very much, writing a blog. But I am also a girl, with a bunch of kids, whom she sometimes wants to lock in a closet. Or wrap in […]
Desk and Chair Makeover (For Free!)
I found this chair on the side of the road. It was originally brown (I forgot to take a picture before I primed it). I took the seat cushion off (just flip the chair over and there are usually 4 screws on each corner to unscrew). I used the free paint from the paint store […]
Shit happens. Just not where I want it to.
Potty training. I fucking hate it. Number 7 isn’t 2 yet, so it’s still acceptable for her to be in diapers. But Number 6 turned three years old in June. He’s in preschool. He’s supposed to be potty trained. He’s got the peeing down. The pooping, not so much. He still thinks the poop will […]