We leave Sunday for our annual camping trip. The name of the campground we go to is called Grover Hot Springs, but we just refer to this trip as Markleeville. Markleeville is the little town just outside the campground. It’s about 30 miles south of Lake Tahoe, and it really isn’t much more than a […]
Barkley Bad Dog: life with a quirky Dalmatian.
In March of 1996, my former husband decided we needed a dog. A puppy, specifically. Actually, he said Devin needed a dog….. “A boy needs a dog. A boy needs a dog.” Devin was 3 and a half and I was pregnant with Conner. I love puppy breath and I love those sharp little puppy […]
In case of emergency… head towards the bar!
I’ve just done a couple of posts about emergency preparedness. You can read parts 1 and 2 here and here. (I will post part 3 on Tuesday.) On that subject, and in line with Happy To Design’s Sunday Favorites, I republish my Dad’s Emergency Preparedness Plan. ~~~ originally published June 25, 2008 ~~~~ Today is […]
Mommy T-Ball Challenges
I am a mom who didn’t set a good example this week… Hypocritical: I have a firm rule that if you join a team, or play a sport, you are committing to it. All of it. You don’t just participate when you feel like it. You’re in or you’re out. I played hooky from Grant’s […]
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 […]
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. […]
Mom of the Year? Me? pffft. Not!
I need to get a parenting blunder off of my chest. There have been so many, but this is the one that truly bugs me the most. Chinese food and bad words: A few years ago we were all hurrying and scurrying around because the elementary school’s Open House was that evening. Knowing that the […]
Snow, Barf & Easter Eggs. Oh my.
A day or two late, our Easter summary. We did not have a traditional Easter Weekend this year. On Good Friday we went back up the hill for a weekend at the cabin (shower floors to cement in, pipes to be set, etc…) Lo and behold… snow. Just an inch or two, but I got […]
You never know when your number’s up. Or when that lesson hits home for your kids…
How quickly life can change. Or end. My husband took the boys to an Angels game last night. They watched 22 year old rookie pitcher, Nick Adenhart, pitch a 6 inning shut out. (The best of his professional career so far.) We watched the highlights on the news last night after they got home. This […]
Don’t let the name scare you.
In a previous post I wrote about my propensity for pulling random ingredients out of the fridge around dinner time and making things up as I go along. When my kids ask what it’s called, I usually say something uninspired or unimaginative like Mom’s Casserole or Mom’s Pasta Surprise. Mom’s something or other. The boys […]
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