About 2 months ago, I started Operation Organization. It was initiated for several reasons. A combination of several major stressful events occurring simultaneously had me feeling seriously out-of-control. I was wasting tremendous amounts of time looking for things that would have been easily located if the house was picked up. And I wanted a place […]
Funny Stuff
Just call me Dopey.
There are plenty of advantages to having older brothers and sisters. But there are also some disadvantages. Mainly in the vocabulary department. When you are 2 or 3 and you have a big brother or sister, you learn some words you wouldn’t learn until much later. You know, when you started going to school. And riding […]
The best. present. ever.
When you are under 3, and you get your first “baby” for Christmas, it is the best. present. ever. When you are between 5 and 9, babies are, well, for babies, and when you get an Easy Bake Oven for Christmas, that is the best. present. ever. When you are in the double digits, Easy […]
In case you wondered, MUM is no longer the word.
My grandma was terrible at keeping secrets. She ruined more than one surprise party. She died on Saturday. We didn’t tell the younger kids right away. It wasn’t because I didn’t want to tell them. The opportunity just didn’t present itself with schedules being crazy. In fact, I considered sort of preparing them for it […]
It’s the Most Dangerous Tiiiiiiiiime of the Year.
I would rather do this, or be this chick, or come across these, or this, or find this crawling up my arm, or walk across Niagra Falls on this, or be this dude, or this guy, or even this guy, before I ever want to be in a Walmart or Costco parking lot on the […]
I’ll take the Ipad, the case, the protection plan, and 25 Xanax, please.
When you do a triathlon, they have these people there called swim angels. They are there for the participants who are nervous about the swim portion of the race. They swim right next to you, and keep you company. They calm you down. They help you. I was thinking about them yesterday. When I was […]
