Your Daily Dose

Number 3 is the Duke of Non Sequiturs.  But after a little bit of digging, I usually manage to connect all the dots… Let me backtrack a minute — My grandmother and my aunt are pretty old. A year-and-a-half ago, after getting home from the big family reunion we have here every summer, my uncle, who was […]

I can understand when one of my kids wakes me up at midnight because she had a bad dream. And I can understand when the 3-year-old calls me to her room at 1:00 a.m. because she really needs to go potty. When my husband wants me to check on the baby because he thinks she is breathing faster than usual, […]

Our school district pays substitute teachers almost nothing. To start anyway. Maybe if you survive a certain number of days then the pay eventually increases.  But I think $65 or $70 a day is insulting. So it’s no wonder some of the subs are complete morons. Okay, maybe it’s just one.  But still. There needs […]

I just had an idea. And I’m not really joking… If you follow my facebook page, then you saw this a couple weeks ago: Yeah.  These weekends are killing me. Finding a way to get the kids to baseball games, swim meets, band competitions, football games, and birthday parties which are all taking place simultaneously requires way too much planning. I feel […]

I can’t drink the way I used to… Last night I had one too many glasses of wine.  And I stayed up way past my bedtime. But also, yesterday, I felt something poking me right under my boob.  I kept readjusting things, but nothing seemed to be helping. It took me way too long to realize […]

Yesterday I took Number 4 and Number 7 to the doctor for their yearly checkups. It was not fun. Number 7, who just turned one year old, is at that stage where she does not want to be held.  She also has a bit of a temper. And Number 4 is… Well… She’s Number 4. […]