Yesterday was the Easter party at Ada and Jasper’s preschool. School Parties and I just don’t get along. There are so many reasons. Let’s explore: I have six children. Would you want to run any errands with six kids? Neither would I. When the kids are in school I have four hours to get all […]
I simply couldn’t resist this eye-rolling headline from an article by Fox News: U.S. Navy Unveils New Ship That Can Fight Pirates Wow! How advanced we are! We’re actually going to have a boat that can fight pirates. I believe Queen Elizabeth made a similar announcement in 1570.
I do not like the following: being tipped backwards or upside down Can you guess where my least favorite place is? If you said “an amusement park” you would be right! Pick just about any ride and I will most likely hate it. Maybe I have inner ear problems, I don’t know. Have you ever […]
As if weren’t enough that we middle-aged moms are having to deal with teenagers and often times a husband or significant other who is having a major identity crisis, we are also blessed with physical mayhem of our own. If you haven’t reached this time in your life you may want to stop reading. I […]
I really, really love Instagram (you can find me @heyhildie). I used to fight it because I hated the idea that all my pictures have to be square. Now I accept square-ness (and I know how to get past that if I need to). Instagram is kind of like Facebook but without all the ads […]
Somehow in the raising of children you oftentimes start traditions that you didn’t mean to start. Of course these traditions usually end up being a complete pain but heaven help you if you try to abandon them. Thus we ended up with the Annual Buying of the School Supplies. Think Running of the Bulls in […]
It occurred to me a couple of days ago that Easter is this coming Sunday. I mean I knew that. There are giant bags of candy hidden in my closet. (I’m on top of the really important things.) But I kind of forgot about the whole Easter dress thing. Which is kind of a big, […]
THE most important item in your storage. Get some. Today. Or tomorrow. But do get some. We all know by now that if you don’t have water you will die. The end. So this is not the kind of thing you want to put off. This is what I have at my house, since people […]
Once your kids start leaving for college, you do go broke, but there are pluses as well. Namely an extra bedroom yearning to become a craft room slash sewing room slash art studio (depending on my mood). The recently-vacated bedroom in my house is located right next to the kitchen… Read More
The subject is this: I bought a solar oven. I read a novel a few months ago about Iran launching nuclear weapons above the U.S. that created an Electro-Magnetic Pulse. This EMP caused the entire country to completely lose power permanently. It instantly threw us back into the mid-1800’s, technologically-speaking. Having the vivid imagination that […]
I originally wrote this series of blog posts as a “look what we did” sort of thing. But I keep having people ask questions about our trip because they’ll be doing something similar and want some advice. So I’ve decided to make these posts heavy on details. I know most… Read More
I gave up caffeine last week. Mountain Dew and I were getting a little too carried away in our torrid affair. We just need some time apart. You know how it is. Here’s the funny thing, though; it’s totally not a big deal, this giving up caffeine. Do you want to know how to make […]
I haven’t done much with Makeup Monday in a while because I really haven’t used anything lately that’s rocked my world. A couple of months ago I went up to Dallas for a conference and as I packed to leave, my kids came in and out of my room a… Read More
If you were to spend the weekend in Dallas doing this: And came home to find this sitting next to your sink, what would you do? Would you figure that the babysitter bought some sort of weird potatoes to feed to your kids? And then would you pick it up to examine it closer? That […]