After just half a day of school tomorrow, the children will be home for 4 and a half days straight. I have just one goal for that time together. I want one semi-decent picture with all of the children in it. Last year it took about three hours to get this picture. Four days might […]
Teenagers smell bad. It doesn’t matter if it’s a male or female of this hormonal species. Their feet, armpits, breath and hair are obvious culprits but it seems to radiate from every pore. The smell is there always, even just after bathing. When they are at school, I go into their rooms to collect the […]
Today is wrapper day. Look under the beds and behind the desks to see all the empty candy wrappers. “I don’t know how that got there.” Evan has declared his love for suckers/lollipops/candy-on-a-stick. He stands in front of the fridge with both arms straight up in the air and screams like an air raid siren. […]
Today, November 1st, is “Candy Intervention Day”. Sure, you checked your children’s sweets for needles and razor blades last night, but did you save them from the wrong candies? As soon as their over-sugared little feet have stepped out for school, pull the bags of loot down from the top of the fridge. Is that […]
Halloween 2006 Originally uploaded by cathymccaughan.
Currently: clear and 71 Tonight’s low: 50 Sunset: 5:41 The goblins are restless.
evil eye clown Originally uploaded by cathymccaughan. Your Halloween trick is the picture that got Doug in trouble at the costume shop.
Trick or Treat?
Why didn’t anyone tell me how funny Shaun of the Dead is?
Sarah wants to go trick or treating unsupervised with her friends this year. I think back on when I went out unsupervised. An older brother driving (I just googled him and found out he died. That’s sad.), a realtor’s child getting us into an empty house, alcohol and lots of flirting with older boys. Then […]