Yesterday Number 5’s birthday nail polish went missing. Number 4 couldn’t find it, and she was very concerned. “Mom. We have to find the nail polish. If we don’t Number 5 will be heartbroken.” A few minutes later, Number 3 was putting on his cup for baseball. “Number 4, look. This is my cup. Punch […]
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All of my pregnancies were great. No morning sickness. No aversions to anything. No physical problems really. All my deliveries were the same. Easy. Well, all except for one. With one, I had fairly serious complications. It didn’t help that the ob-gyn delivering the baby appeared to be, um, a total idiot. I got an epidural, but no one hooked […]
No time like the present.
If you follow my facebook page, then you know that my night last night was, well, not average. But those kind of nights seem to be more and more the norm. I know I have 7 kids to keep alive. Which is more than most people. But I think we are all in the same boat. […]
Just the facts, Ma’am.
I used to be a little bit spastic with regard to the kids and school. I had some pretty major control issues. Leaving the teaching to the teachers was a challenge for me; I really struggled with being on the other side of the parent-teacher relationship. So I was a room mom. And a volunteer. […]
I hate to burst your bubble, but I know someone else who won’t mind at all.
When I was a teacher, I always hated assemblies. Most of them sucked. The time would go by extra, extra slowly. To add fuel to the fire, the troublemaker in your class would end up sitting as far away as possible from you. You’d spend most of the time leaning forward in your seat, looking […]
I vow to never vow anything ever again.
When I was growing up, we had a cabinet upstairs with our baby books and a bunch of old pictures in it. I would look through that stuff on a regular basis. I never get tired of looking at old pictures. Especially old pictures of me. The first 10 pages or so of my baby […]