Three days ago I posted this little story on the Facebook page: I didn’t really realize until that morning that Number 7 only had two pairs of shoes. She doesn’t mind. She’s always had what she needs. Until Monday when she had peed all over her sneakers. Anyway, I posted that story just because I […]
Funny Stuff
The Talk, Episode 3.
Zones is in Webster, NY (near Rochester) and about 5 1/2 hours from our house. A blog reader who has taken a couple of my e-courses and become an online friend of mine let me know she lived in Webster, and we arranged to have dinner last night in town. I had never met her […]
Being the older mom. I’m okay with it.
I have always been the “older” mom. I gave birth to Number 3 when I was thirty-five. Number 4 the day before my thirty-seventh birthday. Number 5 three months before I turned forty. Number 6 three months before I turned forty-one. And Number 7 when I was forty-two. And now, at forty-six, I am definitely […]
toy (n): an object for a child to play with, typically a model or miniature replica of something.
A couple months ago I discovered something horrific in my house. Rainbow loom? No, worse. The entire Caillou CD collection? No. Worse. Drugs? Condoms? No. Even worse. A couple months ago I discovered fucking Shopkins in my house. I have no idea how they got there, where they came from, or who supplied them to […]
WELL WHAT HAPPENS TO BOYS, THEN???
Our normal routine here is that I get home from swim practice at about 8:00. I get Number 3 and 4 their dinner, and while they are eating, I put Number 6 and 7, who share a room, into bed. We read a story, then I sing each of them a song, and we do […]
What’s a fucking apple? and 41 other not so shining parenting moments.
We’ve all had one. That really regrettable parenting moment. If we are going to be honest, we’ve all had many of them. And we will all have many more. But for some reason, we feel like we must be the only one on the planet to have had a parenting fail. I recently received a […]