When we moved to this house a few years ago I was a bit stressed about my children having to meet new people. Anxiety issues run amok with me. My mom told me not to worry, that as soon as the girls started school they’d have lots of new friends. But I couldn’t leave it [...]

I was driving home from playgroup yesterday in some bad traffic and the three girls in the back of the car were getting on my last nerve. I could only yell at two of them since the third one doesn’t belong to me. And frankly, she was the only one kind of behaving. Typical. So [...]

I have this group of girlfriends that we call (clever enough) “group.” We started out a loooong time ago as a playgroup. But we had that mojo (very rare with groups of women) where we all just got along. Too bad it’s so rare but I tell you we women can be rude bitches. Anyway, [...]

I just don’t think I can let the day go by without commenting on that sad display of ignorance from yesterday. I’m referring, of course, to the Miss Teen USA contestant from South Carolina who offered the following answer when asked her opinion about why 5% of Americans can’t find the US on a world [...]

It’s really hot today. Sun exploded, Africa hot. And I was outside helping Scott in the yard – I mean who doesn’t like spending a scorching afternoon bagging mounds of dry, dusty, brittle pine straw crawling with spiders? So I’m a tad sweaty. Definitely not looking my cleanest, shiniest best. And I had to go [...]

We are a house full of people who don’t do mornings very well. Scott is famously difficult to wake up and I’m pretty sure chose a career in the stock market simply because the bell doesn’t ring until 9:30. I’m not much better. I tend to wake up early but I’m about as grumpy as [...]

“Dammit mom! I SAID get out of my room!” Parker – in reference to um, me… being in her room. Uninvited. She’s 6.

“You know, alcohol’s a depressant.” My mom – to me. Nice.

“Bitch! You don’t think he’ll call me?!” My sister – in reference to me calling my dad to let him know that she [...]

There have been many times in the last 7-1/2 years where I’ve really felt that I had gotten my shit together as a mom only to have reality smack me down. There was the time when I figured out that I could take a shower every day if I just put Tempel in there with [...]

Scott and I went to his 20th High School Reunion on Saturday night. I considered it my Beta testing for my own 20th reunion which is coming up in 3 short weeks. At first Scott didn’t really care about going. I don’t remember him being this nervous about his 5 year high school reunion. Yep, [...]

Well, summer’s over. Again. T starts second grade and P starts first. I will miss the lovely do nothing days of summer that are just too few nowadays. I prefer my summer’s long and lazy but even when you’re doing nothing you have to have a full frontal attack on the day or you get [...]