Early this morning — long before dawn — I heard Sophie roll over and cough that kind of I’m-getting-ready-to-barf cough. My first thought: Oh no! (The stomach flu’s been going around school.) My second thought: Oh yes! The timing will be just right — at this rate, I’ll be puking myself by Sunday. A serious [...]

A lot of people blog for fun. That’s at least part of the point of GIAPH. But if you happen to have a job that has a blog component (and I’m betting an ever-increasing blog component) you’re likely experiencing the same love/hate relationship I am. A lot of complaining goes on, around my workplace, about [...]

It’s been a morning. Annabelle was sad (more “Monday Blues,” she promised, than the stomachache she’s been complaining about the last few days) and Sophie was sassy (though it’s my fault, not hers, that she wound up going “commando” to school today — the shoes were already on, I made an executive decision). I realized, as [...]

Yesterday I noticed this dinosaur atop my one remaining gingerbread house. No idea where it came from. Ray doesn’t know, either. The cat knocked it down, but not before I got a picture that also reveals a very dirty window. Share:

I was going to start this post off with some drivel about resolutions not made or made and broken, but instead I’ll cut to the chase: I ditched two Girl Scout cookie meetings this week, and I couldn’t feel better about my decision. I have a real love/hate thing going with the Brownies, and now, [...]

We had a mood last night. Actually, the honeymoon of the whole back-to-school-after-the-holidays-thing is officially over. That happened this morning. But that’s another story involving another Bad Mom situation: The debate over whether to allow the 5 and 7 year olds to drink their Carnation Instant Breakfast from a sippy cup. I’m sure I’ve already [...]

It was like Christmas in our house this morning. The Valentine Rubbermaid made its 2009 debut. I meant to wait til all evidence of the last holiday was gone, but knowing Ray that could be months, and we needed to switch out Sophie’s little bribe at school. It’s one of the things that has made [...]

Usually I’m a stickler for the January 1 deadline, but tonight there are still some remains of Christmas around the house. The lights are not only up, they’re on, and the tree is bare but waits in the corner of the living room — items on Ray’s “to do” list. The garbage was so full [...]

Annabelle and I hit TWO Targets today, looking for a lipgloss kit she just had to had, and new black Converse for me. Couldn’t find either; thank goodness for the Internet. We did find Sophie a $9.99 substitute for the Nintendo DS she’s been begging for since Annabelle got hers. Lipgloss-kit-less for the moment, AB [...]

We rang in the new year with family, the kind of friends you call family, U2, The Ramones, chocolate martinis and deep thanks for water chestnuts in Safeway’s spinach dip. So far, so good, 2009. I could have done without the glimpse of poor Dick Clark, but it was a good reminder that it’s always [...]