Tonight’s dinner conversation: Me: Number 7, let’s do your hair tonight so it’s ready for soccer in the morning since I won’t be here. Number 7: Where are you going? Me: To a swim meet with Number 3 and 4. Let me do two french braids. Then Daddy doesn’t have to worry about your hair. […]
Funny Stuff
Because It’s Not An Inspection. It’s A Play Date.
I’m not a big fan of play dates. At my house. I’m more than happy to ship my kids off to someone else’s house, but I rarely have kids over to mine. This started for many reasons. First, we are only a couple years out of the napping stage for our youngest. And being kind […]
Remember That Time At Costco?
We got back from our trip to Richmond on Sunday night. After being gone for six days, there wasn’t much food in the house. Yesterday (Monday) I had plans to get caught up on laundry, clean some stuff up and get to the grocery store, but as so often happens, things did not run completely […]
A Book Review For Moms Like Me — Behind Closed Doors
It’s time for another book review! First, a disclaimer. I was not an English literature major or anything in college. So don’t be expecting anything professional. As a busy and exhausted mom who still does not have large amounts of uninterrupted time to read anything, my criteria for a good book are as follows: 1) […]
I Guess I Bought The Wrong Flavor
Today was day sixteen of summer vacation. It was the first really rainy day since the kids have been out of school, and after two weeks of sun and outdoor swim practices and a few late nights and a nine-hour-long 4th of July party the other day, we were all in need of a lazy, […]
To The Lady Who Yelled At Me This Morning
Dear Lady Who Yelled At Me This Morning, I did everything I needed to do in order to make things run smoothly this morning. I prepped a bunch of food yesterday so making lunches for the week would be easy, and we packed lunches yesterday. I also got all the laundry done yesterday. I helped […]