Do you have some irrational things that drive you to distraction? Things that really bug the crapola out of you even if they shouldn’t? It can’t just be me.

Here are some of mine:

It bugs me that I can’t sit down, pull my knees up to my chest, and rest my head on my knee. I [...]

You know I would like to think that I’m the kind of person that would get a whiff of vomit smell in my house and be stopped in my tracks. I would like to think that I would drop everything to discover the source of the smell and then eliminate it. Um, nope. I pretty [...]

These are random and totally unrelated things about my kids that I’m writing down because I want to remember them. Sorry to drag you into my scrapbook.

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Yesterday Parker was afraid to go into the bathroom alone. Geez, Tempel, what’s wrong with your sister? She’s afraid. Afraid of what? Well, I don’t want to say the [...]

I stopped doing this little series of posts -Emptying my head- as soon as I started them. I had planned to go in chronological order. But I didn’t. I just stopped. Perhaps my brain doesn’t work in chronological order. I should look into that.

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I lived in Northern Virginia, right outside of DC, from age 11 [...]

Big day right?

So I’m thinking, the new little First Children want a dog. They want to adopt a mutt from a shelter. They want a labradoodle or a Portuguese Water Dog. And guess what? Brewster is an adopted shelter mutt that is probably a Portuguese Water Dog. Mostly. His mom was a big ‘ho so [...]

This is Gabby. She is fwee yeuhs oldt. And this is her accidentally mooning me at Chick-fil-A while I was holding a camera. And this is me posting Gabby’s tush on the internet. And this is Becky rolling her eyes at me for posting a picture of her baby’s rump. See Becky? See what happens [...]

You want to test your endurance? See what you’re made of? Find out how much stress you can endure before you throw a clot? Ok then. Take 16 kids to the State Capitol. Via the Marta train. Gulp.

It was a Brownie field trip. My troop was trying to earn the Give your Leaders a Heart [...]

My sister and I have been doing some digging into our past lately. Genealogical research. Which with our limited skills is really just one paygrade up from a Google search. Clearly we’re new at this.

I never really cared much about the past or who the people were that got me to here. We were an [...]

If you had to write your wedding vows now how different would they be? I mean now that you know everything. Well, almost 15 years later, mine would be a tad different:

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I promise to make the coffee every day before you wake up and to always have real Half and Half in the fridge. And [...]

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Me: Um, Mr. Policeman, why are you putting barricades on the sidewalk in front of my house?

Mr. Policeman: There’s going to be a protest here tonight, ma’am.

Me: Dammit. Shit.

Mr. Policeman: Ma’am?

Me: Oh, sorry. It’s just my kids haven’t gotten a proper night’s sleep in a month. And they really need to go to bed [...]