Parenting

Stephen King’s Mom Would Have Been Cool With It

April 12, 2013

Tonight our little guy has been walking back and fourth through the house and each time he passes he has on more camo and gear. I’m just waiting to see what this is about. “I need a camera man” “Can you record screaming sounds over video I tape?” “I might need to turn Lilly into [...]

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Yes, I Use the Duggers as Punishment

March 20, 2013

Yes, I admit it. I use “19 Kids and Counting” as a form of punishment.

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I Need You

March 6, 2013

For three mornings my husband Jim has listened to what my mornings are like with our kids. He is on vacation this week and with no where to go, as the kids are not on break. Today they shamed him into driving them to school. His parting words? “Boarding school cannot possibly cost much more [...]

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You will never guess what I was looking for in my bra.

March 3, 2013

You will never guess what I was looking for in my bra today.   I have two things about my bra today that were VERY exciting. 1. I am wearing a brand new bra and it is actually super comfortable and I am tickled, (if you are a woman, I am certain you understand.) 2. [...]

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We Need a List of all the Bad Words so we Don’t Call the Teacher that Again

January 4, 2013

what is health education
how to parent
what is parenting
birds and bees

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Therapist for Mothers of Boys

December 6, 2012

I’m just now getting into shower because washing machine is broken (!!!!!) and repair guy will be here in a few minutes. I would like to wash the cricket, worm guts, lizard and frog germs off of me. I feed baby crickets to raise into big crickets and then I feed baby crickets to red [...]

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Unlovable but Likable

November 30, 2012

You can use the state of my closet as an indicator to know my current mental status. My closet told me today I was bat-$hit crazy. I have decided if I clean out my closet I will be able to carry on with my Christmas decorating and baking. If, when I am finished, I do [...]

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Who Wants To Go Shopping With Me?

November 26, 2012

Who wants to go shopping with me?  You better have on comfortable shoes and a water bottle in that purse. My favorite aunt taught me to keep a little peanut butter in the car to sustain you while shopping. Will someone please come and cut my Internet cable and give my iPhone a bath? I [...]

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Confession, I am a Hoarder

November 11, 2012

I spent all day yesterday on a ladder and with a bucket cleaning our front porch. Not until I was done did I feel genuinely bad my neighbors had to look at our mildewed white porch all fall. I do this a couple of times a year but it has been a really rainy year [...]

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Even The Universe Finds Us Ridiculous

November 9, 2012

My husband and I have been together since we were kids in rural Michigan.  Our families still share vegetables, (mostly because they want to rub it in each others faces who’s came in first and who has the biggest) and my husband never had a washer and dryer growing up.  Sundays were laundromat days with [...]

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