My oldest (aka: PFB, or Precious FirstBorn) is smart and sassy. He loves cracking jokes and making his friends laugh, but doesn’t always have a good read on the room as far as the grown-ups are concerned. If a wise-crack comes into his mind, it comes out of his mouth, and not always at the […]
Wow, summer is kicking my booty! The whole “stay busy” strategy is working to avoid boredom, but not working to allow me any writing time. But I’ve had two specific requests for this old story, so I thought I’d use a re-post to make sure this new shiny paisley blog doesn’t get dusty. […]
OK: confession. I need to edit the title already, because that was kind of a lie. The rest of this post will be filed under: How I learned to love accept my muffin top. And to be honest, even the accepting part is an ongoing commitment, not a done deal. (And in case you live in […]
Most of the time, my good camera is off-limits to the kids, but there are some days when you just really need to get dinner made. Sydney asks to use it almost every day. So, one evening, I threw the littlest one (child, not camera) in the tub and gave the middle one my prized […]
My adorable little 5 year old redhead just learned to play tic-tac-toe. She got a $1 “Hello Kitty” white board fromTarget as a reward for good behavior and it has 3 tic-tac-toe game frames on it. It’s been about three days and I’m possibly going to saw the board in half and put it at […]