I’ve been doing a lot of ‘winging it’ lately. It’s a difficult skill to acquire as a control freak but I’m trying. It shouldn’t really come as a surprise that winging it is a difficult skill to acquire. We’ve never been trained to do that. Our whole lives are programmed from the moment we’re born until [...]
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A Monday Dilemma: Your child has a complete meltdown upon arriving at school at 7:45 am. Claims a stomach ache is the culprit. Stomach ache was not present throughout entire weekend. But child also rarely complains of a stomach ache. Child proceeds to hold up entire carpool line requiring not one but three teachers to [...]
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Why is it that people (no matter their age) turn into senior citizens before a trip, consuming themselves with packing, so much so that they’re incapable of doing anything else? This past weekend I took my kids to visit a dear friend in Colorado for her daughter’s Bat Mitzvah. Despite the fact that I’m a [...]
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Have you read Bringing Up Bebe yet? If so, I’d really like to talk about it with you. I’m so wishing I were French right now for so many reasons, but mostly because having kids who don’t require inordinate amounts of attention and can keep themselves occupied for one flippin’ hour would be really [...]
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It took me about a week to figure out this was a zucchini. Whoops. I really should have noticed that back in July. But life just gets so busy, you know? Plus, what if it had been a science experiment for one of my daughter’s classes? I’d just feel terrible had I thrown it away. [...]
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Ohh. Feels like fall! So, quick! Before it regresses back to 95 degrees in the shade, run, don’t walk to the nearest grocery store and stock up on pumpkins, bales of hay, cranberries, cinnamon sticks, and anything else that will get you feeling crispy!! Oh how I love, love, love fall! But alas, I know [...]
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Every year I say I won’t do it. But then I do it anyway. Overschedule my kids. Are you the same? It all starts like this: A simple game of Tetris. My life. Probably your life, too. Just as you’re tossing your last dive stick into the pool and squeezing the chlorine out of your [...]
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A friend of mine hosted an “End of the Summer Salads” dinner party last week. I was confused at first. Did this mean we were celebrating the salads that sat around all summer and we were going to eat them wilted? Or did it mean we would only be eating salads whose ingredients are available [...]
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… as in ‘C’rap, I have no idea what’s for dinner. And ‘C’lutter, since that’s all I see. A daily occurrence, really. It usually hits right around 4 pm when everyone descends upon me. And, unlike my other friends, I haven’t done my grocery shopping for the week because I still have a city mentality [...]
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I love Sour Patch Kids. I'd eat Ranch dressing on my shoe. My kids think I like my computer more than I like them. I have road rage.
