The Day From Hell
It is 11:38 pm as I type this. I have just emerged from the shower where I washed off baby barf that happened at 3 something pm. Welcome to my life. Today was the last day of Spring Break for SJ, and...
View ArticleMy Alternate Universe
I can sum up all I know about newborns in three words: Not. A. Lot. We brought home both of our girls at about one year old so newborns are a novelty. I’ve never even considered for a moment what a...
View ArticleAnd A Baby Makes Twenty
Many years ago, Prince Charming and I frequented a little tavern named “The Village”. It was a plain-Jane bar with plenty of cold beer and fried food. At lunchtime, you could find lots of folks there...
View ArticleOh look. Mommy’s crying. Again.
My apologies, friends and readers, for no updates. No sooner than Sweet Baby A went home with his lovely, young parents did my adorable, angsty nephew need a temporary home. He’s gone now, too, and...
View ArticleIt’s August 1st. Where’s a good Southern Baptist girl to go for lunch?
I like Chik-Fil-A. A lot. I’ve loved it for years because they offered comparatively healthy and way better tasting food and far superior service than any other fast food restaurant I’ve ever...
View ArticleI know a boy I never met
I know a boy I never met. He was in his mother’s eyes the day she tentatively stepped into my home wearing Abercrombie sweat pants and Uggs with a Venti Starbucks in hand. She was (and still is) an...
View ArticleWhat’s for breakfast?
We’re cat people. Actually, I am cat people and am raising my girls to be the same. My husband is allergic to cats so it would be safe to say that he is NOT cat people. But he lives with my furbabies...
View ArticleSh%t Southern Women Say
I saw this video for the first time today and I must share with you. If you’re from the South (That’s right. We capitalize it.), you’ll recognize yourself, your wife, your sister or that bitch from...
View ArticleA kinda, sorta Happy-ish Thanksgiving
The hubs and I typically host all big family holiday dinners at our house. All my crazy people + all his crazy people = a long day for me. A long week actually. Feeding twenty, even potluck style,...
View ArticleMy favorite comeback line
It’s a bit morbid, I admit, but it does end arguments…… Me: “Go change clothes and put on LONG pants or tights and a LONG sleeved shirt.” Sophie (age 8): “But, MOM, it gets HOT at school!” Me: “I...
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