Just in case you didn’t know, Valentine’s Day is only three days away! Everywhere I turn, I hear that this year, this entire weekend is being referred to as Valentine’s Day Weekend. So happy Valentine’s Day Weekend, everyone! If my husband does … [Continue reading]
"Wow, you’re way cooler than my mom!"
February 9, 2011 by
One of the characteristics of a stay at home mom is the propensity to wear jeans on every occasion. Ultimately, though, those jeans wear out and one may find oneself splitting a knee wide open on one’s cozy faded pair while kneeling on the hardwood, … [Continue reading]
Speaking of commercials…
February 7, 2011 by
How about that Superbowl? Actually, the only commercials I saw were for local businesses and upcoming shows on CTV, since – for reasons that I truly do not understand – the network tapes over all the blockbuster commercials and instead runs their … [Continue reading]
Wherein I lose my zen talking about Nutella.
February 4, 2011 by
I spend many, many hours a week thinking about food. I spend hours grocery shopping and putting away groceries, hours preparing meals and cleaning up after meal preparation, hours baking bread and muffins and cookies, hours slicing up fruit and … [Continue reading]
Groundhogs, The Bachelor and male pattern baldness.
February 2, 2011 by
Certain special days do not translate well for everyone. For example, Robbie Burns Day - does anyone who is not of Scottish heritage really want to eat haggis and listen to bagpipes? I’m half Scottish and I certainly don’t want to – or President’s … [Continue reading]
I never slept through Money Never Sleeps
February 1, 2011 by
The boys had a day off of school today, and it went the way such days often go: with happiness distributed like a double bell curve, peaking in the mid-morning while pajamas are still on, bottoming out in the early afternoon, and then peaking again, … [Continue reading]
Warning: This Post Written Under The Influence
January 29, 2011 by
I am having one of those days where I seem to be on the go and busy all day, but investigation of the activities that have kept me on the go and busy all day is completely boring and depressing: I spent an hour grocery shopping and half that time … [Continue reading]
