teenagers

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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Watching Old Sitcoms With Our Kids

July 3, 2012

We rented Smurfs to watch with our boys. Peter, then seven, announced when he saw Neil Patrick Harris, “DOOGIE IS IN THIS MOVIE! THERE IS DOOGIE HOWSER!”

Avery, who is twelve, looked at his younger brother with a very annoyed and sophisticated look said to Peter, “That is NOT Doogie. I read this book and Doogie is not in the story at all.”

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My Boys Put Me on a Dating Website? I’m Married to Their Father!

June 26, 2012

Find girls? Why sure if I am a little boy! I will click you and log onto your website via my mom’s accounts because she doesn’t have passwords on HER computer.

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Who Taught You Everything Bad?

June 12, 2012

Everything BAD I ever learned, I learned from a cousin!
It was the Fourth of July and a different cousin and I were using cigars to light fireworks down a dirt rural road. I found out that night that not only were we too young to smoke but fireworks were illegal in Michigan.

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Hatfield’s and McCoy’s

June 10, 2012

Our Peter’s first grade teacher’s names this year were Mrs. Hatfield and Mrs. McCoy.

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God and That Sense of Humor

June 8, 2012

I hit the clicker and as I looked down to check the photo and I saw she was upside down! No worries as she was fine but…priceless.

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Neighbor Kids and My Unfortunate Full Monty Moment

May 23, 2012

I knew I was going to have to explain that I watched a stupid Oprah show and got a Brazillian bikini wax to get ready for bathing suit season. As if having a Brazilian bikini wax wasn’t traumatizing enough!

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Moment You Realize You Have Done Too Much For Your Kids…

May 1, 2012

I could make a tiered red velvet cake at his age, alone. I remember my mom handing me the keys to her Mazda when I was eleven and her saying, “Go get some bread and milk.” And I did. Doesn’t mean that it was right, but I could do it. He genuinely could not get his shoes laced up. He was mad and he was mad at me for not doing it for him.

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Teenagers? I just want to survive two, twelve year-olds.

April 14, 2012

We watched “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” with our boys last night.  Honestly,  the thought of watching it didn’t appeal to me as I don’t like sad movies.  We are going through some growing pains with our twin twelve year-olds and we thought it might be a good idea to make them realize WE MIGHT [...]

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Don’t mess with the Mama or her son who inherited Mama’s sense of humor…CRAP!

March 26, 2012

Don’t mess with the Mama or the son who inherited the Mama’s sense of humor. Crap, they did give me the right baby at the hospital.

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