It’s hard to admit this, but I don’t take criticism or correction well. I tend to get a wee bitdefensive when someone brings my faults to light. If I were the mature and composed woman I aspire to be, when someone addresses my faults my first thoughts would be something along the lines of, “Hmmm… This […]
This Is Almost 40
In 2 months and 24 days, I will be 40. Like many of life’s milestones, it’s a good time to take pause and reflect. I can happily say, I think I have much to be proud of. I’ve accomplished most of the goals I set and many of the ones I didn’t meet weren’t necessarily “unmet,” so […]
I am the worst salesperson… ever.
It goes without saying that in order to promote your blog, you have to be able to, well, promote your blog. You have to subtly place it in conversations… “You have a naughty dog? I have a naughty dog too. I once wrote the story ON MY BLOG about the time he locked himself in the pantry. […]
7 Things to Remember When Your Kid Loses His S*%T at Summer Camp Drop-Off
7 Things to Remember When Your Kid Loses His S*%T at Drop-Off When I was a young mom, one of the best things I did was join a moms group. Every Tuesday morning in a musty meeting room at the back of a church I sat with other moms and enjoyed fellowship, tips for parenting and wife’ing, a free breakfast […]
My BlogU Experience… in Numbers
Some of you may not be aware of this, but I spent last weekend on the beautiful campus of Notre Dame of Maryland University. No, not that Notre Dame. This Notre Dame. I know, I know. You think I threw off the chains of responsibility and went back to college to relive the glory days, right? I did stay in […]
What I’m Doing to Ensure I Don’t Eat My Young This Summer
It’s no secret that school vacations can drive me to day drink and spontaneously cry at any given moment be a little tough for me. Remember the day I cried at the beach? Good times. Or how about this one where I shared the signs that I barely made it through Christmas Break? And let’s not forget […]
Science of Parenthood
Have you heard of Science of Parenthood? You know, the wonderful people who bring you illustrated parenting humor inspired by the madness of raising kids, which not even science can explain. They’ve created gems such as these: All photos found here Today they felt my Mommy Math post was worthy of their incredible site! […]
10 Things I Learned Spending 4,197 Consecutive Minutes with My 10 Year Old
Last week I had the pleasure of spending 3 days traveling to Northern California with my son and his 4th grade class. Let’s clarify here: “pleasure” is subjective. What is “pleasurable” to one person might be excruciating to another. I think I fall somewhere in the middle with a slight lean to one side on the […]
It’s not you, it’s me. Actually, it’s YOU. Totally YOU!
Photo Credit Darling Son, We are in the throes of it- you and I. Although one could say parents and children are always in the throes of something, aren’t they?We’ve got this push-pull thing going on. You want so much to push when I ask you to pull. Then you just have to pull if […]
What we’ve got here is failure to communicate
Living in a house full of men, I spend the majority of my time being worshiped and adored completely ignored. It’s not that I’m not loved. The fact that my children can’t bear to be apart from me for the 2 minutes it takes me to pee, proves that. Their desperate need to share their […]
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