Jul
13
My sister Becky is about to pop. She’s at the taking-crazy-potions-to-induce-exodus point of her pregnancy and I like to do things to help keep her occupied, like play Doctor Mario online with my wii. I’m selfless like that. And also rad.
Today Laylee was watching us play and talking to Aunt Becky on [...]
Jul
11
Find out how I’m simultaneously saving my children thousands of dollars on shrink fees and causing them to miss out on the millions they’d make for their book deal about how their parents ruined their lives.
[read more at parenting.com]
Jul
10
At night, in the dark laundry room, I call myself Uhura as I work the controls. Because I am way not a dork who should be filed away with all the other PZ4s. At all.
While I was working out listening to New Kids on the Block (NKOTB as they’re known in the hood), [...]
Jul
10
I was so excited to get my hands on the Sony Digital Reader, give it a spin and tell you all what I thought of it. When I supervised the media department at a public library after college, we were always talking about the latest technology in video, music and book readers. This [...]
Jul
08
You find that your purse is suddenly inexplicably filled with legos and orange crumbs.
People abruptly unveil way too personal parts of their bodies and ask you if they look red.
Your chapstick is filled with dirt.
Several times throughout the day you notice that there is ketchup on your arm again but you can never find the [...]
Jul
06
I’twas, i’twas. And we consumed greatly large amounts of the fats and the sugars. Because we are patriots.
The cupcakes were made from scratch and about 80% organic, which seems somewhat ironic considering that after eating them we let the children on our street light over $300 worth of toxic chemicals on fire [...]
Jul
06
Until recently, dinner conversation at our house frequently consisted of Dan and I trying to have adult conversation while the kids interrupted to ask if they could get down, eat ice cream or spill their milk all over the table. [read more at Parenting.com]
Jul
01
I worked out for the first time today since I overdid it trying to beat that old lady with a cane in the race and ended up flat on my back for 2 weeks from the strain. It felt great to be sweatin’ it out again, pumpin’ up the music on my MP3 player [...]