Neighbors

I haven’t showered in 3 days and I’m usually okay with that but I have to try on bridesmaid dresses in the evening so I haul the kids upstairs and settle them into playing a board game called Please Don’t Eat My Lipstick as I jump in the shower. After soaping up the essentials, I [...]

{ 26 comments }

I have a few subscription options: Get posts emailed daily, get posts emailed weekly in a newsletter, subscribe by RSS reader, follow on Facebook or Twitter. Who's sick me yet?

A great comment on a post last week from Dolli-Mama ended with: “Cut your neighbor some slack and assume the best.” I didn’t like reading it. Because it’s like she was driving with me last week when I completely lost it after some drivers who, instead of merging, went right up to the construction and [...]

{ 23 comments }

I have a few subscription options: Get posts emailed daily, get posts emailed weekly in a newsletter, subscribe by RSS reader, follow on Facebook or Twitter. Who's sick me yet?

Until I began blogging, I thought that I was weird but had no idea why or how. Why did I feel awkward around other moms? How did I survive this long without being arrested? These questions plagued me, and blogging has truly helped me to hone in on the problem. I’m paranoid. Militia paranoid. Like [...]

{ 34 comments }

I have a few subscription options: Get posts emailed daily, get posts emailed weekly in a newsletter, subscribe by RSS reader, follow on Facebook or Twitter. Who's sick me yet?

I believe that people are inherently good. I know this goes against CNN, the nightly news and many religions, but here’s my proof. When we do bad things, we need to justify it. If I yell at someone, I want to explain WHY it was okay to yell at them. Even serial killers often have [...]

{ 13 comments }

I have a few subscription options: Get posts emailed daily, get posts emailed weekly in a newsletter, subscribe by RSS reader, follow on Facebook or Twitter. Who's sick me yet?

Parallel? Toilet runs.

Dedicated to the previous owners of our home. Back in 2008, when we found out that I was pregnant again, our house IMMEDIATELY shrunk. Our kitchen was already not wide enough to fit a pack-n-play and suddenly I couldn’t get my belly through it. And the wall between the nursery and the master bedroom was [...]

{ 15 comments }

I have a few subscription options: Get posts emailed daily, get posts emailed weekly in a newsletter, subscribe by RSS reader, follow on Facebook or Twitter. Who's sick me yet?

A Memorial Day video tribute to the American Solider from the History Channel’s website. I cried. But at least I’m not writing about American Flag hot pants this year. Click here if you can’t see the video.   To cheer you up a bit, here are places that I’ve been to over the last few [...]

{ 0 comments }

I have a few subscription options: Get posts emailed daily, get posts emailed weekly in a newsletter, subscribe by RSS reader, follow on Facebook or Twitter. Who's sick me yet?

Photo 52

I am trapped on the toilet because the coffee I drank encouraged my body to grant ten seconds of warning before assplosion. And then the doorbell rings. I’m not expecting anyone, but I feel the pressure of someone standing just down the hallway impatiently waiting for me to answer the door. I also feel the [...]

{ 29 comments }

I have a few subscription options: Get posts emailed daily, get posts emailed weekly in a newsletter, subscribe by RSS reader, follow on Facebook or Twitter. Who's sick me yet?

Scott and I have a hard time leaving our children alone with anyone. We hate it — both leaving them and how difficult it is for us. It’s not that we believe we are the greatest parents on Earth. It’s that we know our own shortcomings. And we know other people’s problems are not often [...]

{ 47 comments }

I have a few subscription options: Get posts emailed daily, get posts emailed weekly in a newsletter, subscribe by RSS reader, follow on Facebook or Twitter. Who's sick me yet?