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. […]
Humor
Momma’s Boy
Do you have a momma’s boy? The boy that comes to you for comfort above everyone else? The boy that, no matter how badly he pisses you off, can turn you to mush in a second? The boy that is your kryptonite? The boy that reminds you constantly that there is nobody in the world […]
Nuts About The Fair
Every year since I was a kid, we have gone to the Goshen Fair in Goshen, CT. It’s an agricultural fair held every Labor Day weekend, and it’s about forty-five minutes away from our house. They have animals and tractor/horse/oxen pulls. They’ve got woodcutting and pie eating contests and horseback riding and bunnies and pigs […]
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 […]
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, […]
Someone Told Me It’s All Happening At The Zoo And Whoever That Person Is Should Never Be Listened To Again. Ever.
Two years ago I took the kids to the Bronx Zoo for the first time. I took them on a Wednesday, which (unbeknownst to me at the time) is the free day, and the whole entire world goes then, and the trip didn’t exactly go as planned. It took me a while to build up […]