Last year we went into the Christmas season with no money. None. Not knowing how or if you will be able to give your children Christmas presents is a terrible feeling. And then, a Christmas miracle happened. This year our financial situation isn’t any better, and again, I found myself sick with worry about how […]
Archives for December 2014
It’s a bitch.
I have had many conversations with the kids about karma. I think they are starting to get it. They know I believe that what you put out there inevitably comes back to you. Number 3, who is currently in the running for the title of LFC, has been very obnoxious with the whole karma thing. […]
Just call me a conservationist.
So Number 4’s teacher is young and a newlywed and hasn’t given birth to any kids and has a kick ass wardrobe and a great body and clearly plenty of uninterrupted time to do her hair and her make up. I had a conference with her last week, and I almost brought in pictures from […]
She gets it.
I used to watch the show Intervention pretty religiously. If you’ve never seen it, it was on A&E, and the show followed an addict who believed he or she was being filmed for a documentary about addiction, and who later was the recipient of an intervention. In every episode you would see how terrible the […]
You only get those when you’re on the naughty list.
Two nights ago I hosted my first vendor fair. I worked out a deal where I got the use of a local indoor gym — CT Sports Arena (CSA) — in exchange for some advertising on the blog. I had 35 vendors. A respectable number. There were all sorts of representatives: thirty-one, Pampered Chef, The Traveling […]
If I had some discipline, I could totally be disciplined.
You know what’s hard? Discipline. Being disciplined is fucking hard. Especially when no one is forcing you to be disciplined. Going to your job might suck, but if you have a boss and you have to show up on time and you don’t want to get fired, it’s a little easier to stay disciplined. But […]