I was going to get right back into the swing of things today. Structure. Order. Routine. Because the last two days have been spent stressing. Rushing. Cooking. Cleaning. Wrapping. And waiting… or not waiting… Opening… and jamming. It was literally a blur. So today I’ll spend the day like this. Enjoying. And Appreciating. Oh yeah. […]
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Ohhhhh, Fffffffffffuuuuuuudge.
I put the last present under the tree at 2:30 a.m. I figured I’d take the morning off today, seeing as I only had about 3 hours before Number 5 woke up. But I was wrong. I had one hour. At 3:30 I heard talking, crying and yelling all coming from Number 3, 4, and 5’s room. […]
Christmas Eve. Also known as the Million Mom Wrap.
I can’t believe it. For the first time ever, I am going to enjoy Christmas Eve. The day and the night. I’m done with all my shopping. All my presents are wrapped. I have 10 dozen Christmas cookies baked and stored. I’ve done all my grocery shopping for Christmas dinner. In fact, my turkey is […]
You call that music? Yep. I’m turning into my grandfather.
Dear Justin Bieber’s Guitarist, I saw you and the Biebs on Ellen the other day. And the fact that I watched you two at all is hard enough for me to admit. But I feel the need to tell you something… Now, Eddie Van Halen makes a decent annoying guitar face. But that’s okay, because he’s a legend. He can […]
I’m totally declaring victory.
So in case you didn’t know, last night was my national tv debut. I was on the Dateline “Surviving the Holidays Special.” For about 90 seconds. Not exactly major exposure. But let’s look at what happened in those 90 seconds. First, let me make sure you know that Dateline is, by its own description…” a newsmagazine […]
I’m committed. To being committed.
In the wake of Friday’s tragedy, Ann Curry asked people to commit random acts of kindness. And someone posted that on her facebook page. And then a friend of mine read that post. And she wrote a post about it on her blog, Diary of a Mom. Which I read on Wednesday. So yesterday, I added a link […]