A couple days ago I wrote this post entitled If my kid is being an asshole, I want you to tell me, and someone left this comment: It’s especially hard when the parent is sitting right there and their kid is being an asshole. The parent seems blissfully unaware that their kid’s behavior is inappropriate. […]
Archives for July 2015
The Ten Commandments of Costco
I spend a lot of time at Costco. It’s where I buy about 90% of my groceries. It’s where I can get a big ass ice cream for my kids for a super low price. It’s where I can order a pizza that’s delicious and fairly inexpensive and ready to eat when I’m done shopping. I […]
Perfect Timing
Today was a long day. A really long day. I had to be on deck to coach a swim meet at 7:30 this morning. I rushed out of the meet to catch the rest of Number 3’s baseball game. And then I rushed home to take a shower and get ready to host a Traveling […]
Not this summer.
This was going to be the summer. The summer that I had a Pinterest-worthy garden. The summer I fed my kids more home grown vegetables than anything else. It was going to be the summer that I learned how to pickle and can shit. It was going to be the summer that I cleaned out […]
If My Kid Is Being An Asshole, I Want You To Tell Me
In the past couple weeks I have found myself in a few different awkward positions where I haven’t quite known what the right thing to do is. In one situation, one of my kids got hurt by a friend’s kid. Like struck in the head with a rock. Should I say something? It was an accident. I knew […]
Every once in a while my head manages to crawl back up into my ass.
Number 3 is almost never ready on time for anything. I’d like to blame it all on him. But when it comes down to it, I’ve allowed him to do this. I’ve given many threats. Most of them empty. And so when it comes down to it, he knows I’m not going to do anything. […]