Give Mom the Rockets and No One Gets Hurt

Happy Monday/ Full Moon Day, everyone!  We are just coming off the high of a long weekend - it was a PD day on Friday, which was joyfully spent painting clay creations and playing video games with friends.  Thursday night was the much-anticipated … [Continue reading]

Book Review: Hooked on Hockey

When Simon and Schuster asked me to review Chicken Soup for the Soul: Hooked on Hockey, I laughed to myself.  Surely there are few people less qualified to review a book whose title is followed by "101 Stories about the Players Who Love the Game and … [Continue reading]

Domination by cookie baking

The Boyhouse is vibrating with excitement today.  It's the Halloween Family Dance and I am just going to say that I feel badly for the teachers today.  They are going to be dealing with some bouncy kids.  Also, my own kids snuck cookies before school … [Continue reading]

Nicole’s Favourite Things; Fall Edition

I am very cross right now for a variety of reasons, amongst them a) my dog is sick with kennel cough, which he got FROM his kennel cough vaccination, and now I am faced with a new life as someone who does not want to vaccinate her dog, b) I have had … [Continue reading]

Friday Fun in the Boyhouse

Well, hello there, Friday!  It's been a long time since I posted on a Friday evening.  Normally I'm too busy sitting on the couch making out with a bottle of wine and watching Jeopardy or reruns of 30 Rock to think about writing anything.  But lucky … [Continue reading]

Do you know how hard it is to find a non-slutty pirate costume?

It's only eight days until the second-most-anticipated event in my household, second only to Christmas, and that is the school's annual Family Halloween Dance.  It is, without a doubt, the social event of the season, and it is over by 8:30 pm, which … [Continue reading]

In which I reveal myself as a snob and a lunatic, all at the same time

I had the most productive weekend!  Shit got DONE around here.  I had a number of things on my to-do list and every one of them was accomplished, even down to the "putting photos in albums" task.  For reasons that I do not comprehend, I find putting … [Continue reading]