Living in New England, fall can be pretty spectacular, and most people in Connecticut probably love this time of year. But I don’t really like it. Because I love summer. And I hate winter. With a capital H-A-T-E. For me, fall is like the Sunday night blues of the seasons. I know what’s coming after it, and […]
Humor
Don’t Be An A$$hole
Today I went to my favorite place — Costco — and I saw this: Eleven carts. Eleven fucking carts. I do most of my grocery shopping at Costco. I love Costco. And one of the great things about Costco is that they have like a hundred and fifty cart returns in the parking lot. They […]
The Tunnel and the Train
This afternoon I was sitting with a couple friends watching Number 3’s baseball game. All of our sons play on the same team, and one of the friends lives just down the road from me. After I had unfolded my chair, sat down and gotten all my stuff settled, she said to me, “Have you […]
American Girl. More than just a really expensive doll.
We have never had an American Girl doll. Number 4 has never really been into dolls, and Number 5 would love one, but they’re just way too expensive. So I don’t know that much about them, but I’ve always been under the impression that they were really meant for girls who were around Number 5’s […]
You never know what you’re gonna see when you go to the zoo.
Last Christmas my parents gave us a premium membership to the Bronx Zoo. That meant our whole family could go to the zoo for free an unlimited number of times for an entire year. That membership also included parking and all the premium attractions (like the carousel and the monorail and the children’s zoo and […]
This is the beach. With kids.
8 a.m. “Mommy! Let’s go! I wanna go! Can we go?” “I just need to clean up a little and pack up our stuff, and then we can go.” 8 – 9:30 a.m. Tell kids to eat all their breakfast because we will not be eating something within the first 60 minutes of arrival at […]