Boo I’m back. It’s been months, I know. But it’s been eventful time away. This past year I almost died. I had two major surgeries. Took in two foster children for safekeeping and then sent them on their way. I saw my PR business double. I’ve held down the fort as my husband has spent…
I have a short attention span. I figured out why. Because I have to. I have two boys, my husband and a baby vying for my attention–at the same time. I love them all but I sometimes wonder how painful it was for VanGogh to cut off his ear. (OK that’s lame. It may not…
If you are married and you’ve ever complained about not getting enough loving, stop right there. I’ve just got new perspective on the whole marriage-love-sex thing and you know what? It’s not your fault. It’s not your husband’s fault. It’s the kids. Well duh, says anyone who doesn’t have kids and can see what we…
What would you do if you had two nights alone with your spouse in a suite overlooking the beach, across from the boardwalk? Stay out all night, dine in an expensive restaurant, have monkey sex all night long. WRONG! You wouldn’t do any of that. Or maybe that’s just me and my husband. Maybe we’re…
Last night, my nieces who have been living with us for five months went back to live with their mom. Which means a little more freedom in my house. Freedom to eat sushi and quinoa and goat cheese and other things that don’t require a slathering of ranch dressing. Freedom to do some housecleaning in my…
Is cornbread nasty? Are brownies yucky? Have I just lost my mind completely? So some of you know we’ve been fostering our two nieces for the last five months. It’s been a strange experience. We didn’t know them too well, nor did we know their mom too well. So we expected this to be hard….
I’m afraid I owe the staff of Big 5 an apology for the awful things my Brain said about them. Not that they will ever know, however. So I guess that means I owe them a mental apology. Among the nasty things I viciously thought about them is that they are stupid morons that think…
Moms, you poor overworked, under appreciated ragga muffins you. I am feeling for moms right now. Of course, it is because I know first hand what it is like. Afterall, I spend many a two-weeks-at-a-time being single mom to three rambunctious boys and two really weird girls when my husband is sent off on business….
Summer finally arrived, officially. Though it almost didn’t. At least not in the way I like it to, and of course that’s the all important element, right, that Mother Nature ushers in the seasons to my liking? Anyway, last year I let my kids walk part of the way home from school. It was our…
When we heard that the daughters of an estranged relative were taken into the custody of child welfare services, we questioned a lot of things. Why no one had contacted us or any other relatives that live nearby, why we had to jump through so many hoops, why the county would ignore our phone calls…