Rare is the evening where I have pre-planned a dinner menu. Rare is the evening when I haven’t just thrown together leftovers or stood in front of the fridge at 5:00 in a complete panic. (Or worse: stood in front of the fridge at 5:00, slack jawed, glassy eyed and muttering to myself like an […]
Saint Conner of the Couch Cushions.
This weekend, Conner ratted Grant out because of his horrible behavior at Sunday School. After reading some of the comments about this post, I felt it necessary to illustrate just how bad Grant must have been acting in order for Conner to tell on him. Grant loves all of his brothers, but he has a […]
Can a kid get expelled from Sunday School?
We are shopping for a new church. The one that we had been going to is in our old neighborhood (no longer very convenient to get to) and I wanted the guys to make friends and to get involved in a church where they would actually see those kids during the week… at school, around […]
Landscape Architect.
This is a raised planter in our backyard. It is not treated very nicely. Sprinklers don’t sprinkle very well here. Dogs hop up there and chase each other around the tree. Sad little agapanthus plants get trampled down. Grant was up there on the edge, looking like he was thinking of stepping into the planter. […]
They’re heeeeeere.
Have you ever cleaned a room and then in a matter of seconds it was a total mess again? Of course you have. Especially if you have kids. Or poltergeists. I feel like the mom in the movie who is constantly asking her kids to push in their chairs when they leave the table. Have […]
Does this mean I can call myself a domestic engineer?
Devin (16 and a half) and my 17 year old niece accompanied me to a store. They cruised around, checking out the bounty of goods that JoAnn Fabrics had to offer. I found the couple of things I needed and went to the registers to pay. As I finished up my transaction and headed for […]
My favorite exchange of the day. (But the day ain’t over.)
Grant wanted a corn-dog for lunch. Doesn’t sound too good to me, but OK. Nuked the corn-dog, poured the milk, squirted the ketchup, got the napkin, called the child, busied myself in the kitchen. After a few moments I heard clapping. It was Grant, applauding himself for eating all of the “corn” but leaving the […]
Sometimes you need a penis to fully appreciate the situation.
After a rare, delicious dinner out at Taco Surf (the out is rare, not the delicious); the family was piled in the car coming home. A few blocks from the restaurant, a chorus of “eeeeewwwww” came from the back seats. Melodramatic coughing sounds and cries to roll down the windows. Boys…. That means farts are […]
Ah ha!! Gottcha!
Oh look… it’s Not Me.
Foiled by candy wrappers.
Please picture this mess all over the house. Please imagine bowls, baskets and containers of Easter candy everywhere. Please also imagine piles of wrappers or those damn little foil wrappers that get rolled into little balls everywhere. (I tell you what – when I find out who is flicking them under the coffee table heads. […]
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