If you want to feel much better about your search for a pre-school for a child (or if you are like me and absorb whatever emotion is being portrayed on TV, and want to feel your blood pressure increase), put this movie in your Netflix queue. It’s called Nursery University and it’s about the insanity [...]
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7 Dec
Grinchy Christmas
Christmas is by far my favorite holiday. By a mile. You can’t beat the lights, the music (well, OK, some Christmas music is just plain awful – Christmas Shoes, anyone?), the generally festive spirit, the constant availability of chocolate, etc.. As the song says, even streetlights look Christmasy with the red and green. I even [...]
21 Nov
It Feels Good To Be This Shallow
I wasn’t planning to post anything more before we left town for the Thanksgiving holiday, but I can’t resist describing my afternoon grocery shopping trip.
Ginger and I maneuvered our cart to the canned fruit section because there was a sale on mandarin oranges – $1 per can. This is a good price in my corner of [...]
20 Nov
I’m Still Alive
Goodness, I didn’t realize so much time had passed since my last blog entry. Where does the time go? At least I have a good excuse: we’ve been hiding in the basement with food, toilet paper, and shotguns, hoping that no one with swine flu comes near us.
I kid.
But seriously, who knew it could be [...]
23 Oct
Stop Feeding My Kid Junk Food
I’m going to do something here that I don’t ordinarily do, which is a serious rant. As in, I’m serious when I rant about this.
Why is it that when you invite my little Ginger over to your house for a playdate, you feel compelled to stuff her full of junk food? I’ve yet to have Ginger [...]
12 Oct
Keep Your Filthy Germs Away From Me!
Since I always need to be obsessing about something, my newest focus is germs, or rather, killing them.
H1N1 (swine flu) is making the rounds. We also have the regular flu to worry about. And just for fun, the weather has turned sharply colder, which means people are just going to be sick in general. As a result, [...]
30 Sep
The Best Damn Sauce I’ve Ever Had
OK, I realize this isn’t a cooking blog, but it’s so rare for me to stumble upon a recipe that gets me excited to eat (because I am completely lost in the kitchen) that I feel compelled to post this.
We had a small party on Saturday and someone brought over some chicken strips with Creole [...]
26 Sep
And To Think I Once Believed My Kids Were Smart
I had another reminder recently of just how stressful it is to be a parent and how the title “parent” really ought to be changed to “permanent guilt trip.”
The kids and I headed over to a local park for a play date with one of Ginger’s friends. As the kids played, the other child’s mom and [...]
3 Sep
Die!
Yesterday the kids and I went to a coffee klatch through our local moms’ group. As the moms were chit-chatting, the kids were running around, playing. Every now and then they would lie down on the floor and get very quiet. We all thought this was lovely because it gave us the occasional few moments [...]
21 Jul
Ginger Gets Devilish
For anyone who doubted the veracity of my claim that Ginger had scrawled satanic verses all over our driveway, I present this small art project that Ginger brought home from camp last week. The top of the shell was painted, and apparently Ginger decided to show off her writing skills, which consist of only three [...]
