Back from Vacation
If parenting six kids has taught me anything, it’s that parenting anything under six kids is a flippin’ walk in the park. In our herd, we have just about every flavor monkey you can imagine. We have monkeys with learning differences. Monkeys that are brilliant. Monkeys that are bossy, monkeys that smell (good or bad, [...]
Harry Gets Braces!!
The process:The product:
Whaddayacallit?
Last Thursday, one of the sunshiniest people I know got her tonsils removed. Gabby, my eight- year old stepdaughter – –wait. Is that the right word, if I’m not married to her father, but rather, actively choosing instead to have a life-partnership sans fluffy white dress, bad hair and overlong ceremony? Call it my subtle [...]
Bad mommy
I heard a small voice shouting at me from across the house, and I actually sank lower into my chair. In some kind of ridiculous way, I was attempting to hide even more quietly in my room, while at my computer. I got all still-like, similar to a mouse who’s trying to go undetected. The [...]
Post Game Analysis: Week Six
The week started with a delicious blessing — PIC and I had the WHOLE WEEKEND to ourselves, sans children. We are occasionally blessed with such unfettered time, and we luxuriated over it. we slept in on Saturday, read the paper, lazed about, and then went car shopping. Apparently that killed the day right there. Is [...]
