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 […]
Parenting
A Bright Spot Amidst The Bullsh*t
The past week has been, how shall I put this… fucking shitty. So I’m just going to take a moment to shamelessly brag because hidden in the bullshit there have been a couple of memorable moments. Good memorable moments. This past weekend we had a swim meet. Numbers 3, 4, 5, and 7 swam in […]
Get In The Picture
Yesterday was Mother’s Day, and Facebook was flooded with pictures of people with their moms. My friends had some really great pictures of both themselves with their mothers as well as with their children. And it occurred to me as I was looking at all these pictures that I have very few pictures of myself […]
Today’s “You’re Not The Only One Who F*cked Up Today” Moment Is Brought To You By Me
I fucked up last night. So I thought I’d share this with you just in case you are beating yourself up over your own fuck up. First of all, let me remind you of this: Whether you have one kid or ten kids, whether this is your first kid or your last kid, whether you […]
Your Middle Schooler Doesn’t Need A Cell Phone
This morning I received an email from the middle school principal where Number 3 and 4 go to school. In the email, the principal was asking for parents’ help in a number of areas. One was with fidget spinners. They’ve become quite a distraction at school. I’ll admit I contributed to this problem. Number 3 and […]
It’s Not About Consequences. It’s About Finding Solutions
A couple weeks ago I got an email from Number 6’s teacher. It wasn’t one of those I just wanted to tell you this story about how awesome your kid is emails. It was one of those Your kid is being a pain in the ass and I’m starting to lose my shit emails. Ugh. […]
