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A friend posted this on my facebook wall this morning: “Happy Birthday SJ!!!  Hope your kids didn’t eat your cake already 😉 ” Ha.  Someone would have to actually make me a cake in order for my kids to eat it.  Pretty sure that’s not happening. And really, I don’t need a cake, because that’s just

I had a birthday party with way too many kids today. Luckily, I asked my cousins two daughters, who are in 6th grade and 10th grade, to come help out. They manned a “beauty station” and gave manicures, pedicures, and tatoos to anyone who wanted one.  When the party moved to the pool, they helped

9/17/2012  Today’s Stats Number of years old Number 4 is today:  6 Number of years in a row I’ve almost forgotten about her birthday: 2 Number of hours ago I bought birthday presents at Target:  7 Number of days ago I sent out evites for her party: 5 Number of kids I invited since I thought no

I have a problem shelling out $50-$100 for birthday party goody bags when most of the crap in them is going to break before it even gets home from the party. Tomorrow I am having a birthday party here at the house, and 25 kids (I’ll get to that tomorrow) are coming.  So here is what I

Okay, I found another one of these… and I wasn’t looking for it.  It just happened to cross paths with me.  I feel like I am being taunted.  And now I’m developing some sort of unhealthy and obsessive anger toward the people who are taking pictures of their seriously irritating creations. Indulge me for just one more

I always take the book jackets off of hard cover books because they inevitably get destroyed (in this house anyway).   Rather than get rid of them, I framed some and hung them up in the kids’ rooms. They look great, and all you need is an inexpensive frame (The pink ones I already had at