Back to school week has been a busy one for everyone. Did anyone else run into ridiculousness while preparing for it? Let me share the good, the bad, and the cataclysmically stupid.. The Good: **I am uber-organized. School clothes and school supplies were purchased on sale and over the course of the summer. In fact, […]
Coming soon: The Good, The Bad, and The Stupid.
The boys are back in school. Grant is doing fine so far (Kindergarten is such a big deal) but I am shaking my head at my 7th and 11th graders. A post on that is coming soon. I’ll get that up as soon as I’m finished driving all over town to return PE shoes that […]
Litter-Bugs, Lifeguards and Severed Heads
~~~~ originally published August 1, 2008 ~~~~~~ Litter-Bugs Let me preface this story by telling you that a few weeks ago I yelled at a teenage girl who was driving like an idiot. I saw her in my rear-view mirror, weaving in and out of traffic on Los Alamitos Blvd and coming up fast. She […]
My favorite Mother’s Day gift. Ever.
June 2007 – my favorite photo. It’s the wallpaper on my computer… The best Mother’s Day gift I ever received was in 2003. It is a typed transcript of the conversation where my husband and our three oldest boys tried to decide what to get me. Devin was 10, Conner was 6 and Mitch was […]
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 […]
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 […]
I think Beetlejuice was based on a Schoolhouse Rock segment.
We got a new camera. I haven’t read the manual. I haven’t figured out how to upload my Halloween photos yet. Therefore, no Halloween pix to post…. which may be a good thing since I still had a wine buzz at 6:00 the next morning. (Thanks for a fun night, Auntie E!) I have a […]