Alexa, let there be frost!!!
Came home last week to complaints from two of the teenage household occupants that they were “freezing.” I always tell them to dress for the weather, again, clothes, such a battle. Meanwhile it’s snowing and I ask them to wear…
Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most.
I start my day with a load of laundry. Every day. Home or vacation. No fail, every day. There are currently 9 people in this house. It is a lot of laundry. You know what helps the process along? Pressing…
Is that chicken nuggets I smell?
There are a million things that my father did in the name of parenting that well, normal people would likely NOT do. For example, when I was a kid I had a hamster and called him Thumper. I returned one…
My Sweet Sassy Britches
“Fancy” dinner out. We do this once a year for a special occasion. Every year. It always requires a conversation. I’m not sure why wardrobe is such a problem here, especially with a years worth of advance warning. I’m nearly about…
The rules are, there are no rules.
January 3rd, the return to school, otherwise known as the return of the return of silence. With school, comes a never-ending battle I like to call the Dress Code Wars, Sarcastic Mom Edition. I start nearly every school day here…
I’ll take a knuckle sandwich on baguette, please.
Picture it. Sicily 1922. (I’m kidding and most of you likely don’t have any idea where that came from and why I’m laughing right now.) As I’m standing in the living room, holding a vacuum to suck up sawdust, (yes,…
The Tale of Five Salad Forks
I have dishes and flatware service for a literal army of people. I am down to 5 salad forks. At least 90% of the people in my house don’t know, or even care, what a salad fork is. (Incorrect utensil…
Re-entry
My very wise, long time friend, Sonyia, sent me a message upon my return home from vacation, a.k.a., The Land of Snow. The message, “How was re-entry?” I don’t think anyone else I know, at least know well, understands the…
New Here?
There are currently seven kids living in our home and two living out on their own. This blog came about after some encouragement from both my husband and a group of friends, whom I guess find me entertaining. Maybe it…
