Are you familiar with Corsa, the sweetest dog in the world? The one who does naughty things and gives herself away with her guilty dog smile..? Doesn’t she look sweet? She’s not too good about hiding the evidence when she has gotten empty cat food cans and licked them clean though… I think her cat […]
I eated a butter too…
Dear Family Members, Please keep the dang lid on the dang butter dish. I have told you 50 million times that the cat keeps getting on the counter and eating the butter!! source (This is not our cat) Again and again and again. I nag because I NEED TO. Keep the lid on the butter […]
A smart Mama only needs 1 red flag. (Apparently, I need 6….)
Parents, here are a few red flags that your 7 year old is getting into mischief. He is playing in his room quietly He asks if he can play a game on the computer He comes out to ask you when your birthday is He returns to ask when your husband’s birthday is He asks […]
NOT a well-planned joke.
Just like all of you, I’ve been baking and decorating and shopping and baking and wrapping and baking and… lots of baking. And lots of boys asking if said baked goods were ready to eat yet. Earlier this afternoon I was super-exhausted-I-need-a-nap-or-I’m-gonna-fall-over kind of tired. Just a quick power-nap. (Dear Earplugs and Dark Room, I […]
God bless you. Now move on.
Scene: Our kitchen. I’m battling an unwilling kindergartener over a homework assignment. Me: Please do your homework. Grant: I need to sharpen my pencil first. Me: No you don’t, it’s fine. Grant: Look! It’s raining! Me: Yes. Please do your homework. Grant: When do I get video games back? Me: At the rate you’re going, […]
Remedial Graffiti Artist
This morning we noticed that Someone had taken a pencil and written on the panes and trim around our sliding glass door. (Please click on the photo to more clearly see the artwork)Someone signed his name. When asked why he did this, Someone shrugged his shoulders and stated, “My brain is not very good.”
Our dog can talk!
A guy was coming to work in our yard this morning. It was my day to help in Grant’s class so I brought our dog, Corsa, into the house so she’d be out of the guy’s way. Because I wouldn’t be home to watch her, I put her in the kitchen and slid the little […]
CSI: Kitchen
THE FACTS:I had some bananas that were getting too ripe.I had a banana-nut muffin mix.I combined the two items and baked 1 dozen muffins last night.I set them on the counter to cool and went to bed. This morning we awoke to a Muffin Mystery. Nine of the muffins were gone. So was Handsome Hubby. […]
6 Yellowjackets and 1 Squirrel….
Ahhh. Soccer season. Fall weather (um… not in So Cal), cheering on your kids, enjoying the company of other parents (usually….) Unless you are Grant’s mom. If you are Grant’s mom, for every photo of him in the pack’o’players running after the ball….(he’s #4) ….there is one like this.…or this….(Who knew a drawstring on one’s […]
Lucy and Ethel go to Mexico. (The Shark Story) Part 3
Lucy and Ethel go to Mexico (Part 1) Lucy and Ethel go to Mexico (Part 2) If you’ve been following along, you know that my best friend Eva and I went to Mexico for a vacation, just the two of us. You know that we spent the majority of our week with a Mojito I.V. […]
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