People send me all sorts of suggestions and (unsolicited) advice all the time. Some things make my roll my eyes and sigh heavily. But there are plenty of things I am willing to try. The last couple years have just been so crazy that I haven’t acted on most of the ideas I think might be […]
Lessons I've Learned
A Big F*cking Thank You
Dear Teachers, In this era of Common Core and parents who don’t fucking get it and testing pressure and all the other bullshit that makes your job really frustrating and thankless and oftentimes, nearly impossible, I just wanted to let you know something. We have six kids attending public schools this year. We have a […]
The Relief is Real
Today I sent my baby off to kindergarten. It was a day I’ve been dreading for a long time. Even the thought of seeing her walk up the steps of the bus drove me to tears. Until about six weeks ago. This summer just destroyed me. And it wasn’t even a bad summer. Nobody got […]
How To Throw A Kids’ Birthday Party For Under $15
Number 5 and 6 have the same birthday, and their birthday this year was on the day after the last day of school, the first official day of summer for us. So we had a party. Number 5 had seven friends come over, and Number 6 had three friends come over. Just like last year, […]
22 Lessons I Learned When We Almost Lost Everything
If you’ve been around here a while, you know that the past few years have been financial hell for my family. Three years ago we had to file for bankruptcy. Two and a half years ago foreclosure proceedings started on our house. Two years ago we went on food stamps. Things got worse from there. Things […]
The Family Meeting
Eight days ago I lost it on the kids in the car on the way home from Costco and then I wrote this post after I decided that I was no longer messing around and I was going to have to make some changes. Originally I was going to wait until school was done to establish […]