I feel like I, perhaps, left my dear readers hanging; I will make amends by updating you on the goings-on in the Boyhouse.1) Mark has been using an inhaler for a week, and he has NOT COUGHED FOR A WEEK. Happy coincidence? Related: I have been … [Continue reading]
Melancholy thoughts about back to school and the transformative power of a new pair of panties.
Two years ago, when Mark was starting kindergarten, I wrote this. One year ago, when Jake was starting kindergarten, I wrote this. I find the differences in the pieces to be very amusing - in the first one I'm all "Buy some new panties! Drink some … [Continue reading]
Moose versus Caribou: The Untold Story
Yesterday was what I will call a trying day. My choice of activity for the gloomy day was not great: I decided to take the boys to the mall to buy four - FOUR - birthday gifts, and while there we stopped by the pet store to look at the various … [Continue reading]
Boys and Guns
My husband went back to work yesterday after a two week vacation and so it's been just the three of us, getting back into our regular summer routine. There are, I realized, only three and a half weeks left until school starts and I'm feeling a tad … [Continue reading]
Baby I’m-a Want You
"I figured out what I'm going to buy you," my husband said as I walked in the door, holding a piece of paper in his hand. A present for me? Squee! It's my tenth anniversary in seven months and there is a three stone ring coming my way; my husband … [Continue reading]
Oh, HAI.
Where, you may be wondering, have I been? Or perhaps you were not wondering that at all. In any case, I'm just back from a sunny vacation during which the following momentous events occurred: Jake went from a reluctant, life-jacket wearing child to … [Continue reading]
"That Time of the Month" Emotional Breakdown, and Cougars
I saw Denzel Washington on a Letterman rerun, and he was talking about the difference between a house and a home, and how when your children move out it ceases to become a home and just becomes a house and at that point I teared up thinking of my … [Continue reading]