This morning I brought the kids to swim practice at the town beach. The town beach is on a lake, and the parking lot is across the street. There is a big crosswalk and a two-way stop sign for traffic on the road. People know and expect to have to wait a while at that […]
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Dear Michelle
Dear Michelle, Thank you so much for your message in response to the post I wrote yesterday about the embarrassing incident I had at Costco . Before I go on, I should probably share it so all of my readers can see what I’m talking about: I’m sorry but why on earth would you have 7 kids […]
A word (or nine hundred) to the so-called “wise.”
I’m just a girl writing a blog. A girl, with a bunch of kids, writing a blog. A girl, with a bunch of kids, whom she loves very much, writing a blog. But I am also a girl, with a bunch of kids, whom she sometimes wants to lock in a closet. Or wrap in […]
You Make Me Feel Normal
Yesterday I got a message from a reader. First off, I have to tell you that I’ve started and stopped this message probably a dozen or more times. Two words. Self confidence. Life is kind of a bitch when you don’t have it. Aww. I’ve been there. I think we all have. I kept reading. […]
She’s just not that into me.
When I started writing this blog, my first goal was to get a comment on it from a complete stranger. Not my aunt. Or cousin. Not a friend, former co-worker, or teammate. Someone I had never met. It didn’t take too long for that to happen. Then I found out about Facebook pages. I had […]
Order in the court.
Nothing brings out the black robe and gavel in people like a picture of a sagging, filled-to-capacity diaper. I first realized that last summer when I wrote this in response to a pretty judgmental comment left by someone who didn’t like this: Then yesterday I posted this picture on the not your average mom facebook page: Come on. […]