Mothering a young teen daughter is like some bizarre Freudian therapy. Mother, watch thy daughter acting like you and try to avoid repeating history. Daughter, try to avoid becoming thy mother.

Sarah is still angry with me. She wrote some ugly notes to express her anger. Should be a fun weekend.

I feel like everything I did today was undone ten-fold by Amy. I am completely frustrated. I can’t have a tantrum in front of the children so I may just hide in the bathroom and cry. Maybe I should just raid the Halloween leftovers.

I want coordinating Christmas stockings for our family. This weekend I am going to find 7 different fabrics and next week I will cut them out while Amy is at school. I just can’t decide if I should machine stitch them on the inside or serge them on the outside with a contrasting thread color. […]

Are they seriously suggesting that the next time Amy skins her knee, I should squirt some milk on her injury?

More LOST questions – Did Boone have an 80s haircut on purpose? Why did Ana say the others took a lot of “things” instead of people? Since Sayid said he would never leave Shannon, will he die next? Do the others hate children or are they using them as miners? Why haven't they gone back […]

No, I don’t blame guns for the local school tragedy this week. When I was in high school there were quite a few trucks in the school parking lot and they had at least a rifle in the window gun rack. Anyone at the school could have used those guns. The students got angry and […]

Yesterday it was 80 degrees out but, this morning I am wrapped up in a blanket like an old Eddie Murphy joke (is it cold in here?).

I am turning off the catch-all on my e-mail accounts. Waaaay too much spam.

Since Tuesday was a school holiday for Knox County students, Sarah had two friends spend the night. At the same time that we insisted they quiet down and curl up in front of a movie, a group of high schoolers who had been celebrating the school holiday wrecked their cars in almost the exact spot […]