On a scale of 1 -10 in the parenting department today, I would give myself an F-. All patience had left the building before all the kids even got on the school bus. I didn’t just fall off the yelling wagon, I pretty much took a running start and set a world record in the long […]
Number 4
Next stop, Shark Tank.
It’s baseball season which means that Number 4 has been nagging me incessantly for the past three weeks about setting up a lemonade stand at her brothers’ baseball games to make money. I find her persistence both admirable and really fucking annoying. I told her I would help her out, but that I wouldn’t front her […]
It’s time to acknowledge my limitations.
I’ve run myself into the ground again. I don’t know what my problem is, but I have this disorder or something where I keep taking on way too many things. I totally know better. I just finished the Boston Marathon a little less than a month ago, and rather than give myself a break, I […]
The Talk, Episode 3.
Zones is in Webster, NY (near Rochester) and about 5 1/2 hours from our house. A blog reader who has taken a couple of my e-courses and become an online friend of mine let me know she lived in Webster, and we arranged to have dinner last night in town. I had never met her […]
I could really use your help.
It’s no secret that I’m not a big fan of the four thousand fundraisers the kids’ schools do every year. And between the six kids who are in school, it’s just too much. So I don’t participate in them. Last year Number 4 came home so excited though about the Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser […]
If your house was on fire and you could only take one person or thing with you, what would you take?
I spent this past weekend at a swim meet. It was at a big high school in New York and there were a couple hundred kids swimming in it. Swim meets like this are long and boring. They usually run for about 4 hours, and there is a lot of sitting around waiting to swim. […]