In an email I sent to my Uncle listing possible things he could get my son for Christmas (hey, he ASKED, I don’t just make up lists and send them out to people), I told him: “Anything NOT Star Wars or LEGOs would be good. We are drowning in LEGOs and Santa’s bringing more and [...]
A commercial came on T.V. the other day. It was for Muzzy, the award winning language program that claims to teach young children how to speak a foreign language. In the commercial, the two children mesmerized by the Muzzy program are speaking Spanish. One is a little blonde haired girl, the other a curly haired [...]
Nearly 24 hours later and I am still floating off the high that comes from visiting with best old friends. These friends of ours, they used to live next door to us. This was in our newly married stage, pre-kids, as were they, and we had time to get together at each other’s house or [...]
Thanksgiving, I don’t like you. I’m sorry, but it’s true. I used to like you quite a lot, but I was younger then, and more easily impressed.
When I was young my parents used to load my brother and I and all of our luggage into the car and we’d spend four or five hours on [...]
I spent the morning telling Snags “No!”
No, you can’t wear your red Spiderman robe to school over your clothes so you can “look like Santa Claus”. No, because a robe goes with pajamas so it’s considered pajamas and you can only wear pajamas to school on approved pajama days. That’s in the school rules - [...]
I was planning to go running yesterday morning, but then, when my alarm clock went off at 5:30 a.m., I laughed and mumbled to myself something like “no friggin’ way,” and I went back to sleep thinking maybe I’d run today instead. When I woke up again at 7:00 a.m., I had to let the [...]
And by Goose I mean me. Boy do I hate the weeks between Halloween and Christmas. I’ve read all the advice, how not to gain that average 5 pounds or so, but you’re reading the writing of a woman who gained the Freshman 15 back in college and kept it ON so really, advising me [...]
I don’t recall exactly where I came across this Mock Apple Pie recipe, but I do remember that at the exact moment I finished reading it I thought, “Oh yuck!”
Then I contemplated why anyone in the world would want to make something that sounded so vile and why anyone would try to pass a pie [...]
Our dog, Pee Pee* has been finding her way around the gate we set up to keep her confined to the kitchen and out of our family room while we are away from home. She’s 12 years old and on a vet prescribed diet that causes her to drink more than the average dog, and consequently, [...]
Do you remember those commericials that went something like “It’s 10:00 p.m. Do you know where your children are?”
Well, my son is six, so I pretty much ALWAYS know where he is. If I can’t see him I can hear him. Like right now, he is upstairs complaining LOUDLY about something having to do with his LEGOs.
His dad is [...]
