Y'all. Ten is a tough age. And by tough, I mean tough on me. Bean is currently on my very last, pressure-sensitive nerve. If this child survives to eleven, it'll be a blue-skied miracle. Mama's not even kidding here. Bean was born old - she was one of those kids who had a gigantic vocabulary …
Dream the Impossible Dream
The day after we learned Melissa had lost her job, I received a summons to Jury Duty. We talked about asking for a deferral, but hey... We don't have to make childcare arrangements now. And to be honest, a day alone after so much family time did not sound horrible. Plus, I was raised by …
Yo Mama’s a Beach
The past few days have been interesting. Melissa has been interviewing and talking to headhunters like a fiend and I've been on a mission to spend zero dollars per day, so I bet you can imagine the super fun party at our place this week. So. Much. Stress. Today we had a blank schedule with …
Conjunction Junction
Please tell me that I am not so old that I'm the only one who remembers Schoolhouse Rock? I LOVED Schoolhouse Rock videos and they're actually pretty informative. Don't believe me? Google the Schoolhouse Rock video on how a bill becomes a law - I guarantee you'll learn something new. My favorite video was Conjunction …
Life Without Lists
I haven't had a whole lot to say as of late because I'm struggling to find the humor in my life. I can typically find something shiny peeking out of even the darkest cloud, but that's been tough this past week. It's not that things feel hopeless, they just feel... off. I don't know how …
Xanax, Kindness & a Whole Lotta Jesus
I need to be real here for a minute. I've been living in the middle of an anxiety attack for almost five solid days and I feel like my heart is going to burst wide open. I'm just at the end. Melissa lost her job on Thursday. It was utterly unexpected and came out of …
I Have No Words
We’re heading out early to pick Bean up from camp. The boys are coming out of their skin with excitement, which only doubled when we told them they could skip showers until tonight. Melissa is mining for clean outfits at the base of Mount Laundry and I’m wrangling Pook and Boogie, who have once again …
Hello, 911?
Y’ALL. My sons did not go to sleep until almost 11pm. They were threatened with grounding, dismemberment, typhoons and anything else I could think of not to get me out to bed before 6am today. (Looking back, I think we'll all see where I went wrong there, but hey... It was the end of a …
The Mighties
One of the things I quickly realized when I started staying home with the kids was the amount of sheer garbage readily available on their iPads. Call me naive, but I just assumed that my parental controls would filter it out. After all, Miss Bean the Rule Follower would not only turn off anything she …
If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Your Smother
My oldest daughter Bean is completely in love with a sitcom called The Goldbergs. It's a show about a family with three kids in Pennsylvania and it's set in the 80's. Although a lot of the technology is foreign to Bean (the youngest boy is an amateur filmmaker and uses his camcorder religiously, for example) …
My Five Ring Circus 