Laughing at Chaos

For the longest time I tried to keep all the bath toys in a suction cup mesh bag stuck to the wall of the tub. It didn’t work; we would wake up in the middle of the night to a …

I just performed a dangerous double stuffingectomy on the boys’ lovies. Thankfully, both Puppy and Buddy came through the procedure just fine. They have matching scars on their backs, but other than that, no ill effects. Though Puppy and Buddy …

Karen over at PediaScribe is hosting a contest about your dirtiest story. My life has been crazy enough that I’m just now getting to this (yeah, it ends this afternoon), but I had the perfect story come screaming to the …

Do you eat sugary cereal? I never got the stuff growing up, the closest was Cinnamon Life. Except when we went to Grandma’s house. Then we got the kid stuff. The little single-serving boxes of sugar cereal were always in …

Yesterday may have been Friday the 13th, but we didn’t notice around here. It was a very lucky day; J turned 3 yesterday. He reminded us for days, weeks even. He went around singing a cute little ditty of “Happy …

Oh, I thought I was sooo good. Sooo good with the computer, with the saving and the backing up and the being careful. I thought I had saved my bookmarks with all my blogs on them. I was wrong. My …

I used to really keep a clean house. My college roommates loved me for it; I would actually scrub the floor. Hated to have my feet stick to it. Even in grad school, while Tom worked, I’d take study breaks …

I have my sweet, darling, fast laptop back from the shop. When the woman finally found it yesterday, I think I may have shed a tear and embarrassed myself blubbering in gratitude. They had to replace the hard drive, which …

This is my stock answer when A begins a sentence, “I want…” He’s too young for me to use the actual line, and this gets the point across. It has been eleventy billion degrees here for the last, oh, 12 …

I lucked out in many ways when I married Tom. We’re of the same political persuasion. I believe that religious differences might be easier to iron out that political differences, so the fact that both of us lean far enough …