Posts Tagged ‘Mom memoirs’

Once upon a time there was a house.
It wasn’t a big house, or a fancy house.
The family that loved it wasn’t big or fancy either.
The house watched as the family of three moved in and began to carefully make it their own.
Some paint here, a curtain there.
The family of three became a family of four.
It’s [...]

Nathaniel: Hey, mom, you know that in, like, five years I’ll be able to drive.
I SWEAR every time he says something like that I can feel another hair going gray.  It’s not even funny anymore.
Me: If you’re lucky.
Nathaniel: Dad says I can have his car then, and it goes really fast, so I think it’ll [...]

I have censored what I write and post here to the effect that I try not to tick off my family.  I don’t use colorful language because my mother would have a kitten, I don’t post dirty limmericks because my mother-in-law would probably have me sedated, I don’t tell you about a bunch of the [...]

Yes, there are pictures.
Even if I wanted to pretend I didn’t dress up like a 27th century bar wench and parade around downtown Tampa with my bosoms hanging out…I couldn’t.
Not only are there way too many pictures out there, some even stupidly self-posted…because these other so called friends photographers are all too willing to just [...]

I have struggled with whether or not to share this much insight.
Because I don’t want you all to really think I’m crazy.  But, honestly, have I ever really tried to play up the image of perfect sanity?
Nope, I don’t even try to fake it.
I can talk about my crazy.  I can divulge some of the [...]