New State Bird Makes Life on the Road Interesting
Our state bird has been changed to the Orange Tipped Construction Cone. It's true. And the state flower? The Skid Steer Loader. I'm thinking it […]
Hard Work
Hello, Mr. Hashimoto? I’ve Got Something That Belongs To You
So I had some blood drawn a little while back and sent off to a laboratory to see if there was anything funky hanging out […]
Lord Baden-Powell and Me, We’re like THIS
I don't get scouting. Like, my little artsy-fartsy-Air-Force-bratsy-theater-girl-StayAtHomeMomma-WeirdFashionista-TravelerWoman-WriterChick-Who-Used-to-Dance brain cannot wrap itself around the whole Boy Scout-thing. Particularly Webelos. *collective gasp from Badan-Powell aficionados and […]
In Search of a Left Brain
Frits – www.hikingartist.com My storage room is a swirling vortex of doom. As is my closet. And my office. And my office closet. My kids' […]
Ummmm So. A Bit Non-Post-y Here Today. Wanna Be My Therapist?
Doodz. Huz got back from China on Friday. I spent the day running like the proverbial chicken Saturday. Threw my back out Sunday. Guests coming […]
Wait! Come Back! That Growing Up Thing Kids Do.
I'm spending the day–and much of next week–sending my peeps off to various camps and cousin visits and waving Oldest Child back to college after […]
Mrs. Perfect-Pants and the School Seminar of Doom
I'm looking at putting my kid in a private school next year because frankly, public school, bless its stoic heart, has failed him. Or at […]
The Secret To a Clean Bathroom–And a Happy Wife. Er. Life.
I don't know if you're like me, but there are certain household jobs that I pretty much think were invented by Satan. Cleaning bathrooms is […]
Twenty-Six Years of Wedded Blitz. I Mean Bliss.
(This is a picture of a picture and it's wonky. We look like bobble-heads on doll-bodies. Maybe we really were, actually. And yeah, that's a […]
How to Kill a STRESS MONSTER!
Check out that picture. When I first saw it my reaction was: OHMYHEART! THIS IS MY LIFE! I AM ALWAYS STUCK IN A GIANT SHOWER […]