So if you follow my facebook page, you know that yesterday, Number 5 and 6 were on a mission to destroy the house. And me. This week was particularly bad. If you don’t know Number 5 and 6, here they are:Don’t be fooled by their cuteness. It’s too bad the local church isn’t holding this ceremony this […]
Archives for October 2012
Halloween skeleton decoration (update)
A couple weeks ago I wrote this post sharing a cute milk jug skeleton decoration I found online. We made one ourselves and I thought you’d like to see it. The kids LOVE it. Even the 15-year-old was impressed! It only took me about an hour altogether. Here are some things I learned in case you want to […]
The Universal Birthday Party
If you have a child in elementary school, then you have most likely just entered birthday party hell. Between Numbers 5, 6, and 7, I know that for the next 10 months, we will be at Chuck E. Cheese, or Fun Factor, or Gymnastics Spectrum, or a bowling alley or some other germ-ridden hell hole […]
I’ll take “What the hell are you talking about?” for 500, Alex.
Number 3 is the Duke of Non Sequiturs. But after a little bit of digging, I usually manage to connect all the dots… Let me backtrack a minute — My grandmother and my aunt are pretty old. A year-and-a-half ago, after getting home from the big family reunion we have here every summer, my uncle, who was […]
Good night. Sleep tight. And I don’t really give a shit if the bedbugs bite.
I can understand when one of my kids wakes me up at midnight because she had a bad dream. And I can understand when the 3-year-old calls me to her room at 1:00 a.m. because she really needs to go potty. When my husband wants me to check on the baby because he thinks she is breathing faster than usual, […]
There’s no substitute for a good substitute
Our school district pays substitute teachers almost nothing. To start anyway. Maybe if you survive a certain number of days then the pay eventually increases. But I think $65 or $70 a day is insulting. So it’s no wonder some of the subs are complete morons. Okay, maybe it’s just one. But still. There needs […]