For a few weeks there has been a foul, foul stench in my pantry. It smells like rotting something. Maybe a tiny animal corpse, maybe an onion, I don’t know. All I know is that when I open my pantry, the smell hits me, and try as I might, I can’t find it. After a […]
Ok, more like a many-thousand dollar smile. India has had braces and orthodontia for three years now. But today was the day we’ve been waiting for. She got her braces off for good! Today at 8 am: (forgive the weird blurriness. I’m no photographer and I was in a hurry to get kids out the […]
I love my treats. Oh yes I do. But ice cream has never been one of my favorites. It’s fine, but a total waste of calories, if you ask me. I’d rather have a cookie any day. A couple of weeks ago I took the babies to our weekly playgroup. We met at Phil’s Icehouse […]
Dear Teacher, I couldn’t help but notice that heaping bounty of gifts on your desk today. Especially when you decided to open them all with the children seated around you like a second-grade baby shower. Here is what I will be giving you this Christmas season: UPDATE: OK, you guys, I’m joking. I always give […]
I hope you are all having a wonderful Thanksgiving. Every year of my adult life I’ve been up in the wee hours making Thanksgiving dinner. Some years it’s been at Mister’s parent’s house and there have been lots of people helping out. Some years it’s been me doing the whole thing. This year we decided […]
I was pulling into the convenience store this morning to get myself a Coke Zero (it has just been one of those mornings. The kind where I feel like a giant exhausted slug) when I noticed a big Doritos truck. I remember as a kid passing trucks full of potato chips and wishing that they […]
Today child #4 (otherwise known as Arabella Claire) turns twelve. She is such a delight. She, of course, has those lovely teenage years ahead of her but today she is just a pleasure to have around. Well, 98% of the time. The other 2% she is fighting with Ada. So far I am mystified why […]
I love my treats. Oh yes I do. But ice cream has never been one of my favorites. It’s fine, but a total waste of calories, if you ask me. I’d rather have a cookie any day. A couple of weeks ago I took the babies to our weekly playgroup. We met at Phil’s Icehouse […]
I don’t know what it is about makeup but a lot of times I’ll find a product I really like, then a couple of months later I start searching for a new “holy grail”. (In case you weren’t familiar with this, the term “Holy Grail” is a term completely accepted in makeup circles as that […]
You might not believe this since I’m the mother of six, but it’s is my first year being a soccer mom. I’ve avoided the stigma of soccer mom-dom for many years, for the same reasons that many mothers refuse to drive minivans: you feel like you have lost every bit of cool-ness and are now […]
This is a post about some of the random things rattling around in my life right now. There is a man with no teeth fixing my roof. He was quite charming and persuasive and I couldn’t resist his sales pitch even though I’m really into teeth. He informed me that he has “an eagle’s eye”, so […]
In case you hadn’t heard, Texas is hot. Fortunately I live in central Texas which is much less humid than Houston or Dallas. But that hardly matters since it’s been so unbelievably scorchy lately. Usually there are 11 days of 100º + temperatures each summer. Last year there were three. This year there have been […]
In case you hadn’t heard, Texas is hot. Fortunately I live in central Texas which is much less humid than Houston or Dallas. But that hardly matters since it’s been so unbelievably scorchy lately. Usually there are 11 days of 100º + temperatures each summer. Last year there were three. This year there have been […]
I’ll be posting all the successful 72-hour kit participants on Monday, so try to wrap it up and let me know by then. Post your report here. Also I saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button last night and it was goooood. Very highly recommended. Mister loved it too. He was totally wiping his eyes […]