By: Abbie Gale I have sat and cried thinking about begging my dad to let me go to a Prince concert in Detroit when I was 15. I had been a fan for years the way a kid becomes a young adult to a certain soundtrack. The Abbey Road record store guy, in my sleepy […]
Facebook Friends
How many of you see the “suggested friends” on Facebook and there are people you have 73 friends in common with and you are all…we were probably friends and I unfriended them already because they posted something about how smart they think Trump is or they want to ban ALL refuges or they posted, “I […]
Find Something Good About Yourself and Revel in it Today
How many people woke up today feeling amazing? Amazing that the Christmas stress is over and that we still have at least a week until school starts back up and we can allow that tree to sit there because it’s not Jan 1st yet. If we want to watch television all day in our pajamas […]
Being Twins
I hear it’s national twins day. We have some of the identical kind. I remember being told we were in for an amazing ride as parents of twins. That was an understatement. One of my favorite pictures of the nursery rhyme parade and one kid is a little more excited than the other. So […]
Summer Vacation Should be Two Months, NOT Three. Proof is in these quotes…
I say every year summer vacation should be two months long because my kids turn into pumpkin heads the third month. Give me a few extra breaks in the school year. I am certain my kids would be smarter and I would be less crazy come September. Here are things I have heard this week […]
Another Animal, Temporarily
Guess who went to Walmart at 10:30pm to get kitten formula? For a Gor a baby bunny we found abandoned at our barn-house. I actually said today I would never bottle feed anything again. Remember I bottle fed two rescue kittens a few months ago around the clock. The drive to not watch my […]
Blake Shelton Hiding Down the Street When Divorce Announcement Made, I had no Choice but to Try and Break in
The world learned yesterday that Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton were getting a divorce. THE SKY IS FALLING. They are so cute! How can this happen? Do I have a chance with Blake? Yes, I am amarried but Jim would leave me for Miranda. I mean, I am NOT a country fan but after “The […]
We have been making a movie, a REAL movie
It has been a whirlwind in our house and I haven’t had time to write but there is a whole huge story to tell. We are getting ready to wrap a feature film this week. Stay tuned for the story next week. Things you never imagined you would be a part of […]
Counterfeit Kid
Me, “You are too young for us to go white water rafting in Yosemite.” Ten year-old, “You need to get me a fake birth certificate so I can do things I want to do. Make me thirteen.” Me, “But they will see you have no markings of puberty like armpit hair.” Ten year-old, “They will […]
Inherited Funny, or Crazy but Funny Either Way
Me screaming in the hall at the closed garage door a few minutes ago. “Drag the body to the top of the stairs and I will help pull him down! Keep him upright so you don’t get any more blood on the carpet! Hurry up! I think I hear people. Do you know where the […]
O Brother
There was much commentary when my husband and I saw this street sign today. All of it was done in the voices of “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” Characters saying things like, “We gots a Rainbow Street already but that don’t mean we can’t have a second Second Rainbow Street.” “Why, I believe you […]
Dirt and Boys
Stayed at our barn-house yesterday from about 1-9:30. We even had to get gas station pizza for dinner. This is primarily because there is no one that will deliver out to the middle of nowhere. We couldn’t even bring ourselves to leave. Beautiful day. Jim mowed. Kids rode dirt bikes and I unpacked some. […]
Summer Vacation Ideas and Zombies
“Hey boys! Look at this! We can do a night tour of Alcatraz! The boat pulls up for the tour behind Alcatraz on the loading docks!” Youngest, “Ummm, no.” Twin 1, “No. Freaking. Way.” Me, “It would be soooo cool!” Other twin, “Are you out of your mind? You clearly don’t play the video games […]
Don’t Listen, They Lie
This is something I wrote to someone else today when a friend had a bit of a public meltdown. I switched it around a little but I think more people need to hear it because so many people are fighting their own battles from anxiety, depression or family crisis. I know when I feel […]
Worry and Worry Junior Have a Talk
We worry. That’s what parents do. You can have a child who has “a worry.” I do. I have to pretend to not worry because I tell him everything is ok…all day long. Then I began to worry that he got the worry from me. Then I remind him, and myself, that our “worry” really means […]
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