It’s all about connection
As I write this, I’m heading home from the annual SENG conference. I had to stay an extra day because the airline was demanding all my organs for a Sunday afternoon flight, and so I had quiet hours in which to think, …
Summer polar vortex. These words are just wrong.
So yesterday this BS came across my feed: The words from my mouth would have made a sailor blush. Yes, the temps are only dipping down into the upper 60s (40s at night), but it.is.July. Supposed to be the hottest month of …
What’s in a blog name?
Could your blog’s name subconsciously influence your life? When I first started writing this blog, lo those many years ago, it was under the name Never a Dull Moment. Made sense. I had a four year old and a one year old …
{GHF Blog Hop} I wouldn’t have believed you
I can’t believe I’m saying this, I really can’t. It gets better, parents. I hardly believe it myself. •The infant who didn’t sleep through the night with any regularity has become the teenager who easily sleeps around the clock. •That …
It’s just like that
It’s just like this. Only the blocks are one big chunk of solid cement, I am crushed beneath it, and the boys are wrestling and jumping on top while the dog barks and farts with impunity. The pencil is …
Marry the person with whom you can have a midlife crisis
“It’s the days leading up to a full moon that lands on Friday the 13th, it’s Mercury Retrograde, I haven’t seen the sun in three days, the boys gnawed on my second-to-last nerve today, I’m PMSing to a level of …
The dregs of the drafts folder
I was doing a little back-end housecleaning and oh hello, the drafts folder. Where posts go to die. I know there are bloggers out there who have several hundred or even thousand dribbles of posts in their drafts folder, but I …
A year of small gratitudes
Last year at this time I was pretty grumpy. I’d just gritted my teeth through a winter in which I was never warm and had the cracked teeth and extensive dental work to show for it. That had followed a …
{Friday Flashback} Mommmm, I’m boooored!
Some years I’m on top of it, some years it sneaks up on me. Summer activities for the boys. This year summer tiptoed up behind me, threw a sack over my head, and proceeded to beat me senseless with a …
{GHF blog hop} You must be 21 to read this post
I’ve joked for years that parents with a gifted or twice-exceptional child in their care need their own private vineyard. I’ve also been heard to comment that wine should come out of a third tap on the kitchen sink. And …