I really don’t know when it all happened. There was a time, not that long ago, where my children would be mildly interested in sports and sport news, but would rather play with toys. Suddenly, my oldest, who is now 11 and in the 6th grade, has become sports obsessed. It’s kind of awesome, and…
I now have a middle schooler. And a midlife crisis. I honestly have no idea where the time has gone. How did I get so old? How is my baby going into 6th grade? It’s been a great school year. For the first time in a long time, I feel like I haven’t had to…
I had an experience today that I found so disturbing and upsetting, I really am unsure of what to do next. So I’m blogging about it. Advice please. So my 8-year-old son is in an Little League. I haven’t been in love with the league this entire season. It’s unorganized from the top down. There’s…
I view this post as a public service announcement to all parents. All that Halloween candy that you just don’t think anyone will eat, or should eat? Put it away and save it for Christmas!!! Not Christmas exactly, but it’s the perfect thing to help decorate your gingerbread house! Yes, I know, genius. I started…
This has to happen to all of us parents at some point…right? We try hard to do right…to encourage our children to be, “anything they want to be”. And then it comes to this…fighting over Halloween costumes. Despite my best efforts, my family REFUSES to do any sort of themed-family costumes. In the past, I’ve…
Many of you have seen the updates/pictures on facebook- so here’s the story…. This is the after picture. See, Patrick and is brother were wrestling in his bedroom…and he went under to hide under the bed, and got stuck on a big nail that was sticking out of the box spring. Apparently we have industrial…
Eight years ago, I was pregnant and nesting. I decided to make my son-to-be a Christmas stocking…all by myself. It’s something my mother did when we were little, and I thought it would be nice to have something my kids can look at and say that their mom made it for them. It was a…
Whenever I’m off during the week, it’s typically a holiday, so the kids are off as well. But NOT today!!! I did some much needed cleaning to “THE closet.” We have this one huge closet in the house that pretty much keeps everything we have. It’s also where all the Christmas items are stored, so…
One of my favorite things to do on a road trip, find the funny in local billboards. It’s not hard to find the funny in some of the signs along I-94 in Michigan. Not sure what happens when you get near Jackson, MI, but the signs are just too much…. Not sure what sort of…
I have a lot of facebook, twitter and actually in-person comments about a now famous picture posted earlier this week. Here’s the story for those of you who haven’t heard. My precious little 7-year-old, Brendan, was forced to write thank-you notes for the birthday presents he received from his friends/family. This was not a chore…