Current status: 36° outside, sitting in the car waiting for it to thaw with two bellowing 2 year olds. Heat’s on in the back. Air conditioning is blasting full bore at my face in the front. It’s cold outside but I am the sweatiest of sweaty messes this brisk Tuesday morning. Melissa’s having a sedated …
Brought to You By the Letter F
I had a weird childhood in a lot of ways. We didn’t have a TV when I was a kid except over Christmas when we borrowed one from my grandparents to watch the holiday specials. My parents went to this religious seminar thing that taught about the evils of secular music so they came home …
Reloaded!
It’s Friday as well as the 977th teacher in-service day of the school year. I’ve got my bonus baby today, so it’s a six child, no-holds-barred fun fest up in Casa Bradshay. Melissa was supposed to bring me coffee on her lunchbreak and she forgot, then she got to escape back to the office after …
I Think I Can Do It
I have long considered myself a Jane of All Trades. I’m marginally good at a lot of things, but not particularly fabulous at many of them. I have accepted this about myself, truly I have. I generally look at new tasks with a shrug and think, “I can probably figure that out.” And then there’s …
One Child Concepts
Let’s talk for a minute about standards. Before you have kids, you try not to be judgy, but you still side-eye the mom carrying her caterwauling kid like a surfboard out of Target just a little. And you have a variety of ideas around television, sugar consumption and disciplinary effectiveness, none of which have been …
Done!
My Pook is a girl of strong convictions. She does nothing by halves and feels nothing mildly. If she’s happy, you know. If she’s unhappy, you REALLY know. Today was our quarterly cancer screening, which is part of the protocol for Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome. BWS causes the body to grow unevenly, which can cause a variety …
Paw Patrol Power
For those of you who have been following the saga of Roo Pooper, allow me to provide you with an update. I am so far beyond over this that I’m pretty sure Roo and I are on different continents. I came home from church on Sunday to find poop on the living room floor. I …
Satan’s Teddy
My current inability to sleep is really starting to tick me off. If it’s not me and my brain, it’s the boys or the babies. I honestly don’t remember the last time I was able to sleep more than three hours consecutively. I’m a big fan of powering through, but it’s killing me in the …
Hail Mary
I am 95% seriously considering never taking my children to church again, because each and every week they use the lessons in the sermon against me. Here I am, trying to apply pastoral wisdom and focus on “unapologetic kindness” and you wanna look me right in the face and tell me that the games on …
Sarah With An E
I’ve been burying myself in Netflix a lot this month trying to ignore that the 15th was approaching like a bullet train. The ostrich approach has never really been my thing, but being home with five kids doesn’t give you much time to lay in a dark room and think. So Netflix it is. Anne …
My Five Ring Circus 