When you go grocery shopping for you and your husband and your five kids ages 8, 9, 10, 13, and 14, you look like you are getting ready for the end of the world when really you have just enough bread, milk, eggs, and produce to last about a week. Yesterday I went to two […]
Parenting
You Don’t Have To Be A Homeschooler Right Now
My kids are off from school due to the Coronavirus through at least March 29th. I wouldn’t be surprised if it ends up being longer than that. For at least the next 15 days, we are unexpectedly off from school. That’s a long time when you weren’t prepared. At all. A lot of people are […]
Back To Basics
Our schools were closed for (at least) the next two weeks today due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our local YMCA also shut down for the next two weeks. With a 75-year-old father who is in great shape but also has a heart condition as well as a 74-year-old mom who just finished her fifth round […]
Disappointment Is Inevitable
The boys’ high school swim season in Connecticut is about four months long. And the way a high school swim season works is you train your ass off for the majority of the season. For like a hundred days, you bust your butt in the pool. You get the shit kicked out of you six […]
SHE DID IT
A little over two years ago, Number 3 and 4 swam in a swim meet at MIT. Number 3 was twelve years old, and Number 4 was eleven. The meet was trials in the morning with the top twenty kids in each event coming back to swim in finals at night. There were more than […]
Decluttering My Life, One Thing At A Time
I suffer from Fear Of Missing Out syndrome. BIG TIME. Well, until recently, that is. I think my FOMO issue happened kind of gradually. Or it increased and intensified gradually. When you have lots of kids, you get used to a certain level of chaos. You get used to messes. Lots and lots of messes. […]