Remember Thanksgivings before you had kids? I remember my first “adult” Thanksgiving laughing with...
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Gratitude Versus FML
You know those days when your morning starts with cleaning up the garbage spilled from your...
Thanksgiving Week – My Guilty Pleasure
No, it’s not because it happens to be the “all Pleather week” in our...
Communist Waffles
Earlier this year we became concerned that our youngest child had behaviors consistent with...
How an Online Guitar Lesson Gave a Stay-at-Home Mom a Lesson in Gratitude
The other day, I learned to play my first song on my husband’s guitar. His guitar, as in, the...
9 Ways My Inbox Is Taunting Me
While scanning through my e-mail, I was hit with something very powerful. My inbox is an archival...
Raising Children on Taglines
When it comes to listening to parental lectures, speeches, sermons, and monologues, children have...
A Fly Will Poop On Your Lip…and other parenting lies
Someone once said “I believe in being honest with my kids, 101 percent.” That someone wasn’t...
Are We Really Shitting in Supermarkets Now?
Apparently shitting in supermarkets is now a thing. I don’t mean in the bathrooms. I mean...
Modern Day Super Heroes (Sort Of)
As a kid, I thought heroes were rare creatures born with special powers on planets that I couldn’t...
When is a D-Cup Really a D-Cup?
I went to one of those fancy bra shopping places. You know the kind? They feel you up, comment...
My Massage Therapist Bums Me Out
I awoke with a pounding headache, a kid’s foot in my face, and a crooked neck. Yet, in a few hours...
I Hate Halloween
My initial instinct would be to love Halloween. Really, what is not to love about a holiday...
Ladies Who Lunge
Three days a week I haul a Trader Joe’s bag filled with exercise gear to work, and use my...
The Tricks I’m Learning From My Middle Schooler
The other day I felt a bit frantic. Up until then, I hadn’t been freaking out about this transition...