What’s that smell?

After a week out of the house, the smell we came home to was . . . foul. I did my best imitation of a bloodhound until I found the culprit. The next time the children want to put something in water and leave it in the windowsill to “see if it will grow” the […]

Happy Birthday Tommy!

Seventeen? Already? I guess it’s a good thing that the tiny nun visited me a few hours after you were born to advise me to make more babies right away. You might be an only child if she hadn’t. 😉 I love you Tommy!

hotel thoughts

I understand why some of the Katrina victims had to be forced from their hotel refuges. I really liked the hotel rooms and bathrooms. Never running out of clean towels is a luxury I could never get tired of having. A two-year-old doesn’t care that people are trying to sleep just a few inches from […]

fast food or good food, not both

After one week in a hotel, our 2-year-old now screams “fry-fry” whenever he sees a giant yellow “M” or a drive-thru window. Coming home to an empty fridge today was depressing. Not having to cook is fun, but not when your choices are limited to fast food. We did get one tasty meal in a […]

Amy says:

“Smoke on the Water!” On her first day of kindergarten, Amy told her teacher her favorite song and then proceeded to hum the famous tune for over an hour. I mumbled an apology to the teacher that included the phrase “older siblings” and wondered what Amy said that the teacher didn’t tell me. Somehow I […]

Rotting Raccoon (apologies to Beatles)

Now somewhere in the middle of the road in Knoxville There was the dead body of a rotting raccoon And one day somebody’s car ran over his dead body Hit dead rocky, made him fly, Rocky didn’t like that He lay rotting in the ditch Mangled, bloated, stinky and forgot He made the women gag […]