Daring Young Mom

Laylee:  Isn’t my doll wonderful?
Me:  Yep.
Laylee:  She has a hat AND a purse.  Her purse is so small.  She can only carry really really tiny things like… like choking hazards… and other tiny things.
Oh Ginny, Ginny who is called Beth by small illiterate preschoolers in my household, why you gotta go down like this, homey?
Packin’ [...]

I think the rats are gone.  If not, I’m giving them the silent treatment.  Is that cruel?  If it is, please comment on this post and tell me that I have no right to be a mother because of the way I treat animals.  I always love that.
We are warm and cozy and have had [...]

WE HAVE POWER!!!  Early Thursday morning the trucks rolled in.  The men from Montana in rubber pants and jackets stood out in the pouring rain with generators, cranes and hand tools. An hour later my dishwasher was running, the house was warming up and I had the ability to crimp my hair if I so desired.  [...]

I have a few minutes at a friend’s house to type a quick blog entry and thaw my toes and my children.
A major windstorm hit the Seattle area Thursday night, knocking down trees and leaving millions of residents without power, so says my hand-crank radio and the guy who lives inside it. My local [...]

I’ve noticed a disturbing trend over the last few years in our media.  There is an increased use of the song, My Favorite Things, as an anthem of Christmas and I think it’s just wrong.  I can offer plenty of evidence for this.  First of all, Fräulein Maria sang it to the children in the middle [...]

I feel better about the rats today.  It’s partly because they’re gone now and I didn’t witness a single body flying down the vacuum tube.  It’s a little bit because Dan and his boss looked up these pictures of cute fluffy-tailed rats indigineous to our area.  It’s largely because I have an awesome therapist who did [...]

It’s been a WEEK.
On the way to the Nutcracker last Friday, Vinny was rear-ended, causing over $4000 in vehicle damage, sore backs and necks for me and Laylee and some serious emotional trauma and reduction in driving ability.
Until now, I’ve never been in an accident. In the past when I’d see a lame and tentative [...]

I find it interesting that my last post was about how I don’t have time and I’ve been putting off asking for time-saving tips until I had the time to write about it.
My biggest advice for saving time is something I haven’t been doing myself lately. THINK! Take the time to think and [...]

I have a lot to write about in regards to our rodent problem, my car accident on the way to The Nutcracker, why I’m canceling every fun activity from my children’s lives to make them happier and the roofing project going on two inches from Magoo’s bedroom window.
However, I’m too busy cleaning vomit out of [...]