I reached a breaking point yesterday. AND I AM DONE. No, it wasn’t with my kids. It wasn’t with my husband. It was with the level of chaos and disorganization and clutter and mess I often allow in my house. I will no longer tolerate it. Let me tell you why. I have to rewind […]
Funny Stuff
They Don’t Have To Do It All
4th grade is that right of passage year in our school district when the kids can finally join band. We don’t have orchestra in our district, so a band instrument is the only option as far as in-school opportunities go. When I was a kid, I started playing when I was around nine years old. […]
A Not-So-Facebook-Perfect-Afternoon (We all have them!)
Sometimes my kids are really really really good. They cooperate with each other nicely, they work together, and play together, they are generally happy to be around each other, and they are nice to each other and enjoy each other’s company, and I say to myself, “I am doing a pretty good job.” These are […]
Some Days It’s Just A Sh*t Show
Today has been A DAY. Where you are behind from the very beginning and then things just kind of unravel from there. Today was a Monday morning where the lack (or total absence) of planning ahead and being prepared over the weekend came back to bite me in the butt. Hard. We had a busy […]
A Wedding To Remember
Seven years ago I was in desperate need of a babysitter, and I put an ad out on Sittercity.com. I didn’t really expect anything to come from it, but I figured it was worth a shot. That one decision led to an eventual knock on our door from a beautiful, smart, funny, ballsy, super cool […]
How To Be The Perfect Parent — Ten Lessons From The Experts
I remember the first time I wrote a post and was completely filleted by a reader. It was five years ago, and being new to the whole world of blogging, I had never even heard the term troll before. Not in reference to something posted online, anyway. Five years later, it has been made very […]