The next time you go camping, I will not pack towels, washcloths, soap or shampoo. I will not pack jammies or extra outfits. I will send you in an outfit that is stained, torn and outgrown. When you return, you can strip down in the yard and be hosed off BEFORE entering the house and […]
Katie is getting everything organized and planned before her baby is born. When I was pregnant with Amy, I intended to go back to work and let Doug be a stay-at-home Dad. The day before she was born, I was asked to send out condolences to a man whose infant died and then let everyone […]
Evan is an addict and I am his pusher. He acts like he isn’t the least bit ready to wean off his drug of choice. I think he would be perfectly content with me showing up at school to give him a fix. I supplied all of my children past their first birthdays, but they […]
Yesterday, Noah came home from school smelling like Tommy smells when he comes home from school. Noah left for school smelling like a little boy and he came home smelling like a teenager. Nooooooo!
Isn’t there code that would mess with the blog scrapers? Why can’t viruses be used for good instead of evil? Since I got my camera three years ago, people (cough, Doug, cough) have constantly changed the different settings. While out of town last weekend, I realized that it has been messed with so much that […]
I couldn’t begin to count how many funerals I have attended. My parents never replaced dead pets or shielded us from dying relatives. Our extended family has always been close. Sincerely close, gathering together as a group for all day eat-athons multiple times a year while seeing each other in smaller groups every other weekend […]
“I’ve only been in the bath for 30 minutes so far. This is a quick bath.” The girl could blow away in a strong wind. Why can’t she soap herself in 15 minutes?
How did people make 5 hour drives before XM radio? Why did we torment ourselves our children by making this trip without a DVD player? When seeing people you haven’t seen for many, many years, the process works something like this: You look at a woman approaching you and know that you should know who […]
A decade ago, my father’s side of the family had a family reunion in Martin, TN. While surrounded by delicate infants and fragile seniors, Sarah and Tommy developed red spots. Red spots that went from two to two hundred over a matter of hours. We probably caused the biggest outbreak of chicken pox that small […]
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 […]