I often forget how little it really takes to make kids happy. This always comes to light around the holidays when I’m obsessing over gifts. That kids would rather spend hours wrapping or making things out of empty boxes than actually shopping for what could be inside of them. Reminds me how uptight I people [...]
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My husband and I, how shall I put this…have severe thermal differences. If it were up to him our house would be used to store frozen meats for Costco. I, on the other hand, believe that a thermostat was meant to be used. If we wanted to live in a frozen tundra we would move [...]
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Oh no you didn’t. Oh yes I did. Yeah, I’m going there. You know it’s been bothering you all month so you might as well start thinking about it now considering Thanksgiving is this Thursday. Now, before I continue I should duly note that 1) my mother-in-law is not coming for Thanksgiving and 2) if she [...]
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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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Was planning on writing about allowance today but it seems so inconsequential when the storm of the century is battering the entire East Coast. Last year at about this time, Hurricane Irene almost devastated New York City. This time it seems more dire. Eerily unprecedented. Newscasters using terms like “catastrophic,” “mind boggling” and “unlike anything we’ve [...]
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about what to be for Halloween this year? No silly, this is not about the election! I’d NEVER do that on my blog. Because then I’d be one of those people who talks about who I’m voting for, or, worse, puts signs up in my yard and then you’d judge me. If I said OBAMA [...]
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I think a lot can be learned about people by their use of ‘Reply All.’ Originally created as a work tool to help disseminate information (similar to that of an office memo back in the ice age), today the ‘Reply All’ button, IMHO, is grossly overused. Maybe people think they’re being funny and want others [...]
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Right around the age of six it seems that Halloween costumes make the not so gentle transition from super cute to super slutty. I mean, one minute my kid’s wearing this: …and the next minute she’s begging for this: Um. Really? NOT. Over my dead body are you wearing that. Come to think of it, [...]
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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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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.
