Avast! Mondays be worse than bilge rats fer me. ‘Tis a day spent aboard me ship, scuttlin’ the ankle biters about town.

The commercial for this week’s new episode of LOST is tormenting me nightly.

My weekend is going to be spent doing laundry. What are YOU doing this weekend? 

I know that with 5 children the odds are pretty good that I’ll see a bit of everything. I still can’t understand why Evan hates the car seat. Have you ever heard of a baby who didn’t nod off every time the car moved? Of course not because babies are supposed to like the car. […]

A week before the departure date, Sarah's trip to Dauphin Island has been cancelled by the Dauphin Sea Lab officials. Sarah is now visiting Self-Pity Island but I just can't bring myself to feel sorry for her. I was not convinced of the safety of the trip at this time and it just seems wrong […]

Monday was Noah’s Open House at school. The hallway walls were decorated with students’ stories and pictures. Noah wrote a story about teachers playing “Ultimate Dodgeball” when the students aren’t around. That was okay. However, he was the only student whose picture included dead teachers all over the school lawn, complete with little x marks […]

“Get the baby out of the swing so I can put my baby (her doll) in it.” “Yay! I waked the baby.” “Mooooom! Come see how big my poop is.” “I accidently dropped the roll of toilet paper in the water.” “I need different clothes (while putting on fifth outfit of the day).” Mommy needs […]

It’s cooler outside than it is in our house. 

I have no sense of direction. If I was a laboratory mouse I would starve to death because I couldn’t find my way through the maze. I have the children’s schools and activities memorized but I don’t dare try venturing off my regular route in the least. Once I am off the familiar roads I […]

“If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?” Stephen Wright Our AC is broken. Blech.