Dear Diary, Worry of the Day: Sometime in the murky future, this sweet little tater tot kidlet will discover that the only reason I hang out and party with her is because Iâm getting PAID to do it. And then…
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Dear Diary, Worry of the Day: Sometime in the murky future, this sweet little tater tot kidlet will discover that the only reason I hang out and party with her is because Iâm getting PAID to do it. And then…
I was a great parent before I had kids. Who knew my firstborn was going to practice base jumping from our rooftop into our pool on a bike when he was ten? Why would he eat a live grasshopper at…
When we moved, we had a âpivotâ. Our old house closed escrow three weeks before our new house did, and we were officially homeless. Into the gap stepped my beloved mother-in-law. Her empty rambling house would fit us all, and…
Hubby and I added on to our house three times. It only took twenty years. And we still speak to each other. This is because we divided up the toolbox into two halves and respected each otherâs territories. I am…
Every six months two of my sons and I go to the dentist for a simultaneous mass cleaning. Itâs easier to schedule, harder to forget and impossible get out of. It means there are three nervous hygienists asking me to…
When Hubby and I went through a bad patch that lasted, oh, about ten years or so, we finally got it into our hard heads to try counseling. This is huge for âdo-it-yourselfersâ like us. After all, if you can…
Mother Knows Best  Knows A Lot Knows More Than We’ll Admit -By the blogger’s daughter âSoâŚhow do you hang stuff on the walls without using nails? And if you were hypothetically going to wash all of your clothes in one…
Silly me. I thought if I got everything done on The List in the appointed time frame and stood in the long lines without whining and wrapped the presents with gritted teeth while listening to Imagine Dragons really loud (hey,…