Number 3 is giving me a run for my money. He is the kid right now who knows how to push every single one of my buttons. But what I have learned in the last few weeks is that the behaviors I’m seeing, the ones that really frustrate and often infuriate me, are not not […]
Archives for October 2016
Slow Down Saturday
Today is the first Saturday in too long that we have no baseball games, no swim practices, no swim meets, no birthday parties… Nothing. I spent the morning in the kitchen cooking. I made three trays of chocolate chip banana bread and brownies and about five gallons of chicken stock and meat for tacos and Mexican chicken […]
How We Got Our Asses Out of the Financial Black Hole, Episode IV
This is week four of the How We Got Our Asses Out of the Financial Black Hole series. If you are just joining in, my family is coming out of a 4-year-long financial shit storm where, among other things (and in a very brief nutshell), we filed for bankruptcy, were on food stamps, and had our […]
The Four Gift Rule (And The Story Of THE ROBES)
I was going to wait until closer to Thanksgiving to write about this, but after what happened yesterday, I’d like to share it today. If you follow me on Facebook, then you may have already seen this post from yesterday (had to do three screenshots because it’s long — but funny!): So the kids […]
A Letter To My Child’s Teacher
Editor’s note: I did send this exact email to one of the kid’s teachers, but wanting to not throw the kid under the bus, I changed the Number of the kid and I may or may not have changed the gender. Dear Mr. (Science Teacher), As you know, there is a personal science experiment due […]
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. And if it IS broke, maybe you still shouldn’t fix it. At least not for a little while.
Our dryer broke a couple months ago. Our dishwasher broke a few months before that. The way we handled these broken “necessities” after our financial troubles is much different than the way we handled them before. Which could be part of the reason why we entered into financial trouble in the first place. This is not […]