I just want a restful quiet Thanksgiving. That’s what Scott said to me and because I am the girl who makes shit happen around here I’m on it.

Problem: How to extricate ourselves from our families.

Solution: Run away from home.

Ok then, we are running away from home. Just for Thanksgiving. Well, and maybe Christmas but [...]

***Apologies***

I swear this is the longest thing anyone every wrote and posted to a blog since Al Gore invented the Internet. Please take your time. You have all weekend to read the blatherings. Thank you. Now, as you were.

I don’t know if these should be called “frequently” asked questions. Maybe I should call them questions [...]

What’s your best or favorite thing about Thanksgiving? I’ve been wracking my brain trying to come up with lovely memories of Thanksgiving past to hold on to and make the traditions continue for my kids but alas . . . I can’t think of anything spectacular. I don’t even mean Lifetime Movie of the Week [...]

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First of all, I’m a scatterbrain today so if you find yourself uninterested in what you’re reading then skip down to the next paragraph. It’s probably about something else.

Immortal Matriarch said that we bloggers should have more information about ourselves on our blog than just that little spit of info over there in the margin. [...]

Setting the scene: Tempel, Parker, and I are in the kitchen in the morning getting ready for school. I’m making the lunches while the girls are propped on their stools. Then Parker hops off of her stool and comes around to me presenting her bootie. And action…

ME: Tempel, your little sister just farted on me.PARKER: [...]

The weekend that the shit hit the fan with my parents (you can get some background here and here if you don’ t know what I’m talking about) my sister and I decided to take a break from nursing my mother to have a face to face with my dad.

Setting up the meeting was not [...]

Wait… that doesn’t sound right. I mean Driving then Drinking Event. Well, either way cars and cocktails make strange bedfellows.

So Blogher and Saturn had a thing in Atlanta last night to drive some cars and have some libations and so I went. Of course I dragged Scott with me. But there were promises of cars [...]

Ok, the thing about the Obama kids getting a dog… Um, not news. But the media won’t shut up about it. Nothing like a mindless feel good story to fill the time.

Well, I’m tired of hearing about it so I’m taking matters into my own hands. I’m mailing Brewster to the White House. I can [...]

Lest you think that all of these mindless posts about shopping, trick or treating, birthdays, and elections means that life here in Casa CarolynOnline is all hunky dory I offer the following photographic evidence:

It’s Parker’s door. Covered with Post-it notes. I know you can’t actually read the Post-it notes in this particular picture. So I’ll [...]

For my efforts heading up the camping trip in early October I was given a lovely gift certificate to a store in which I have never entered in my life: REI Co-op. It would appear to be a cooperative of some kind. Catering to people who drive either Range Rovers or Subarus as evidenced from [...]