You are not the extra pounds you are carrying around your midsection. You are the safe spot your children seek for comfort. You are not the cellulite you notice on your legs. You are the strength that supports your family. You are not the picture of your twenty-something self in a bikini. That person was […]
Parenting
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, […]
Can you hear me when you’re on the mound?
Last night Number 3 had a baseball game. In the third inning, he went in to pitch. Number 3 is a pretty good pitcher. Really good, actually. And this year he’s been super confident on the mound (or the bump, as Number 6 calls it), and it’s been fun to watch him pitch. But last […]
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 […]
The Wheel of Choice
Yesterday my kids were totally sucky and pushing my every button and beating the crap out of each other and I went off on them in the car and told them that things were going to change. For all of us. They were on their best behavior until about noon today, and then things started […]
Yes, for the rest of your lives of being little kids.
I lost it on the kids today. We were in the car on the way home from Costco, and — I should rewind… Saturday mornings are not much fun for me. They are so far from the Saturday mornings I had as a kid where you would wake up at 7 or so and watch […]
