Posts under ‘parenting is harder than it looks’

I am just sick this morning. SICK! Not EWWW-sick like I was last week during that nasty bout of stomach flu, but absolutely 100% heartsick this morning. Why, you might ask yourself. Because I had to be a freaking parent this morning!  And it sucks. And I hate it. And I resent my kid right [...]

Peyton – Will you get me a glass of water? Me – Get it yourself. Peyton – pleeeeease, mama?  I’m tired today *makes very put-upon face* Me – (grumble grumble grumble but gets up to get the requested beverage) You know if you just pull up a chair you can get a drink whenever you [...]

Much has happened this week, between conflict with the boy child for his repeated choice to be a complete mushbrain and getting the awesome invitation to join a phenomenal team of bloggers as a Race and Ethnicity channel editor for Blog Nosh magazine (more coming soon about that)…but, in all honesty, it’s all sort of [...]

There was this one time we were visiting friends and we walked into the living room to find my 9 yo, her 10 and 11 yo’s sitting completely captivated by “Resident Evil”…the scene where zombie Doberman’s attack?…yeah, that one. After a long talk about how we were never going to tell daddy about this particular [...]

I saw this great thing! And then I had a fun idea. But then I saw that someone else had already done it…actually, a LOT of someones had done it. However, I’ve never bragged about my originality, so you’re getting it anyways! We really might as well go ahead and call FEMA now. Oh, she [...]