I really said “The fact that I was doing the dishes was a freak accident.”
In my last blog post, I told a story of doing the dishes and getting so caught up in the act that I spaced time and place and my daughter missed her dance class. It appears that in the same … Continue...
View ArticleThis was written back when people used pay phones. And calls cost .10 cents.
November rots. Rots like the jack-o-lantern decomposing on my porch. Or as my 7-year-old daughter would say, it sucks eggs. I know I’m *supposed* to be all grateful and thankful for each and every...
View ArticleThere is a place in this world for people who bring the rolls.
I’m not sure at what specific point in time I was deemed a Culinary Liability. It could have been years ago, when I neglected to put cake mix in the mixing bowl and wondered why the batter was so...
View ArticleSize DOES Matter, Especially When You’re Trapped Under It.
Over the weekend, Chris and Eva and I were at a stop light at an intersection across from a Behemoth of a Vehicular Monstrosity (BVM) with a Christmas tree bungeed to the top. All appeared normal at...
View ArticleOuch.
I hurt myself on Friday. I was a year-round, 3 sport a year athlete as a youngster and have worked out fairly regularly all of my adulthood. Amazingly this is my first sports-related injury ever,...
View ArticleWill Run For M&Ms.
The women in my family sport varying degrees of athleticism. Some of us have been on sports teams from the moment we were allowed to be, some of us abhor effort and sweat. Regardless of our levels of...
View ArticlePleasant Woman, Interesting Problem.
I’ve been in a Four-Alarm Funk since this happened. Agony does not bring out the best in me. I am lucky my family hasn’t put me by the side of the road with a “Free To ANY Home” sign stuck … Continue...
View ArticleBaby, Baby Not
For a variety of reasons, I perpetually look like I’m about 7 months pregnant. Even at my most svelte, I have a belly. When I actually *was* pregnant, I continued to work out and was in good shape....
View ArticleDon’t Read This if You Get Bent Out of Shape Easily, Take Your Elf on a Shelf...
Thanks to Kim over at www.elfshaming.com for providing a forum for more fun than I could shake a stick at and for making Johnny’s woes that much more funny. If you haven’t shamed an elf yet, you ain’t...
View ArticleIt is just as likely that a Unicorn will walk up and slap me in the face as...
Balance just doesn’t exist for me. Laine Griffin and I just did a podcast about this very topic at www.kateandlaine.com. I’m a single mom in the truest form, I am literally the only parent my...
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