I stopped reading parenting magazines years ago, when I realized that my son and my life would never be in them. Instead I have a gazillion and one other subscriptions, courtesy of airline miles that will never add up to …
You know how parents are always told to enjoy driving their kids around because we go all invisible and can hear all sorts of stuff? Well, I don’t have the opportunity to drive around the boys with their friends for …
Good fillings: whipped cream, chocolate ganache, buttercream. Bad fillings: teeth, potholes, deep puncture wounds. Barely tolerable fillings: this post. Reread yesterday and you’ll see why.
For six months my calendar is pure white and I practically die from ennui. Then six months worth of activities are pushed into six days. Good times, good times. Today A and I are attending the InHome Conference. My first …
It is unseasonably warm in Chicago this week. I almost wrote “unreasonably” warm, but when it’s 80 in mid-March, you do not look a gift horse in the mouth! You fall to your knees in gratitude, blow kisses at the sun, …
It is a holiday here in the House of Chaos. And if you’re a geek or raising geeklings, you know what it is. Pi day. The day we celebrate all things 3.14159etc. That’s as far as my memory can reliably …
It’s great to learn ‘Cause knowledge is power! If you’re a child of the early ‘80s, you’re familiar with that cute little ditty. Oh, Schoolhouse Rock, how I love thee. I can count by threes, recite the Preamble, and I …
Have ya heard? Today Mercury is in retrograde! (Interpretation: things are gonna be screwy for the next three weeks. You’ve been warned.) I never put much stock in the whole Mercury is in retrograde the world is going to ennnnnd!!! thing…until …
I should have known better. Classic rookie mom mistake. Shoulda just kept my mouth shut. See, A is going to Boy Scout camp this summer for the first time. Overnight camp. For a week. No parents. He has never gone …
