Month: February 2007

Girl Scout cookies are here

Starting tomorrow morning, I grow an additional arm to sell and deliver Girl Scout cookies. My annual offer to deliver cookies anywhere in Knoxville is once again extended to everyone in this area. This weekend’s cookie booth locations include West Town Mall, Kroger and Ben & Jerry’s. Guess which one I’m looking forward to the […]

Dear evil girl in Sarah’s gym class,

For telling Sarah that she has “ugly cone-shaped breasts” compared to your “perfectly shaped breasts,” I hope that you get a giant pimple on your nose the day before school pictures. Sarah’s Mom

Amy says

Mom: “Amy! Why do you keep taking things away from your brother?” Amy: “Because I want whatever he has.” Sibling rivalry simplified.

Parenting styles (part 3 & 4)

A parenting style that you might think (mistakenly) is limited to California and communes, is the “child as parent” style of parenting. These parents believe that children innately know what they need and should therefore, be allowed to make all their own choices. These children eat whatever they want, whenever they want. Ice cream for […]

car wash

Have you seen the vehix.com commercial with the small child giggling joyfully from his carseat while the car goes through a car wash? It’s a lie, I tell you, a lie. Either they blue screened that car wash into the picture or they have that child so hopped up on cotton candy that he would […]

my two cents on Anna Nicole

Bury that poor woman next to her son already! Anyone who wants anything else doesn’t care enough about Anna to be relevant. What a bunch of hateful ghouls.

condoms in your pocket

Via Blogging Baby I found underwear with condom pockets. Based on the other materials the company sells, it looks like it is marketed for young college students, but Blogging Baby suggests that “progressive” parents might want to buy these underwear for their teenagers. I consider myself to be a very open-minded parent, but I’m not […]

transition to what?

After months of asking, I finally have the paperwork leading to Tommy’s transition meeting. His teacher would like him to go half-days next year so that he can spend half of the day working for school credits (instead of pay). Okay, I can talk Tommy down from the no-pay thing if he enjoys his work. […]

smells like teen something

Everyone has their own “get ready to go” routine. Sarah’s involves a lot of time in front of the mirror and a splash (or more) of some Bath & Body scent. Tommy’s involves gathering his stuff and spraying his armpits with the green label scent of Axe. Over the weekend, we loaded everyone into the […]