Putting the OM in OMG
Tweens, am I right? Parenting tweens is - I'm discovering - a funny business. There's the newly found need for space, the sudden interest in girls, the need for me to tell the kids to GET OUT OF THE SHOWER, IT'S BEEN TWENTY MINUTES. There's some … [Continue reading]
It's cold here, but not unusually so, by which I mean today was -22 without windchill and that is the coldest it has been all week. The rest of the week sat around -15 without windchill, which is certainly par for the course for January in … [Continue reading]
It seems like most of the world was busy ferrying their children back to school yesterday, but mine spent most of the day in their pajamas; it was, strangely enough, a PD day. I was glad it was a PD day though, because I was a little busy yesterday … [Continue reading]
Happy New Year! And thank you to everyone who offered your kind words. I promise to keep on keeping on, because what if the mannequin came back? If a mannequin shows up in Nicole's alley, and Nicole doesn't write about it, does it really exist? We … [Continue reading]
I have a confession to make: earlier this month, I thought of closing this blog down. I thought maybe I should retire it; when I started it in 2008 - 2008! - I was writing about life with two little boys, aged 3 and 4. I was writing about funny and … [Continue reading]
Sometimes, in order to get motivated, one needs to have a period of complete sloth, and that was me last week. I didn't exercise. I didn't work. I did the bare minimum around the house. Basically I spent a lot of time on the couch, with a glass of … [Continue reading]
Since the last day of classes, I have collapsed into a puddle of sloth and gluttony. HOO BOY, the last week of school was a long week. No matter how prepared a person may be, there are always some strange requests in the last week of school. On … [Continue reading]
