I don’t know about you, but my kids suck right now. Maybe it’s the end of the school year. Maybe it’s the anticipation of summer. Maybe it’s the lingering effects of a seriously shitty winter. I’m not sure of the reasons. But they suck. The fighting and arguing and ignoring and disrespecting is at an […]
Archives for June 2014
His cup doth not runneth over.
Last weekend was crazy. I had to coach a swim meet all morning on both Saturday and Sunday, and on Saturday afternoon I had to teach swim lessons. Number 3 was also playing in a baseball tournament. I’m usually around for all of these things, but the swim meet and the baseball games were happening […]
Skinamarinky Dinky Dink (Dear Mrs. M)
Yesterday was Number 5’s last day of preschool. Today was Number 6’s last day. I have always been a crier. Ever since I can remember. On these last days of school, I am usually a disaster. But things have been so crazy, that I have not allowed myself to think about the fact that yesterday […]
It started with exercise. Now I can do anything.
I did something today that, had you asked me a year ago, or maybe even a month ago, if I could have done it, I would have spewed my coffee out all over your face. Yeah right. Cancel the cable? No. Way. But I did it. It took me nine minutes with the dude from […]
My goal isn’t perfection. It’s simple. It’s to have more F-U-F days than not.
I go to see my therapist every Wednesday. My husband and I go to see our therapist every Thursday. Between the therapists, the kids, the blog, the swim team, the furniture business, the e-course, the private swim lessons, the baseball games, the end-of-year parties, the concerts, the recitals, and all the other things going on right […]
Hey Facebook. You suck.
Toddlers and preschoolers are like little drug sniffing dogs for all the shit you have in your house that you don’t want them to find. Like tampons. And Sharpies. Last week Number 7 sniffed out a Sharpie. And she did this to herself. The combination of the connect-the-dots design she made, the mullet haircut Number 6 […]