The house I grew up in is about one mile from the house my dad grew up in. And the house my dad grew up in is about a quarter mile from the church where I went to nursery school. My grandma was actually one of my teachers there. And fairly often, when nursery school […]
Your Daily Dose
Yesterday kind of sucked. Well, except for this one thing. Which didn’t suck at all.
If you’ve been here a while, you know that Number 3 is my worrier. He’s got some significant anxiety and OCD related issues. He worries about what other people think. He worries about doing things the wrong way. He worries about Number 4 being better than him. He worries about the car breaking down. Or […]
Don’t judge a holiday by its cover.
We are halfway through our second week of summer, and I am about 10 times busier than I was during the school year. Today I’m teaching 8 swim lessons. Number 3 and 4 have swim practice this morning. Number 2 has baseball practice tonight. Number 4 has another swim practice tonight. And Number 3 has […]
Blondie would be very disappointed with this generation.
Number 2 is 13 years old, and he’ll be a freshman in high school next year. He’s an excellent student, a good athlete, a great dancer, he’s very creative, and he’s musically talented. He’s conscientious. Dependable. Responsible. An overall good kid. He wasn’t always that way; he and Number 4 have some similar personality traits. When […]
You know what? I’m really f*cking proud of myself.
Yesterday as I was coming out of ShopRite, I ran into a friend who told me I was starting to look… shredded. I’m losing weight from the head down and the toes up. My arms and legs are developing some serious muscle definition. I have to admit that I’ve been spending a lot of time […]
I need to see some ID, please.
I have not been able to find my Y card or my license for over a month. Number 3 was playing with his Y card in the kitchen, and sliding it along the wall, when it slipped out of his hands and slid into about a 2mm crack between the wall and the cabinet. So […]
