I say again: This is not a mommy blog.

But you know, I am a mommy.
You saw it coming, didn’t you?
Yes, well.  OK.
We’ve had a TON of thunderstorms the past few days, and one a few nights ago was particularly bad.  It was loud, and flashy, and stayed on top of us for what seemed forever.
I woke up around 2AM to TheKidlet crawling into [...]

“I get by with a little help from my friends.” – John Lennon

I’ve written before about the friends that I’ve made here – and it seems like every time I turn around I have another story that exemplifies that wonderful group that we’ve found ourselves a part of.
Another case in point:  two days before TheKidlet’s birthday party, DaHubby and I realized that, because of various reasons, she [...]

Perspective….

This weekend has been one of complaints.
Mine, hers, his.
Complaints everywhere.
I started thinking about this today, and I had this really weird realization.  That I also had a friend who I had been thinking about all weekend.  I suspect this was my subconscious way of trying to put my own stuff into perspective.
My complaints consist of [...]

Stuck in a rut with no rope ladder in sight…..

I got my notice from BlogHerAds that I haven’t posted in two weeks. It didn’t seem possible, but …. yeah. I’m in a …. rut, a funk, a …. something. Pretty introspective. I’ve started a thousand blog posts in my head, even had one that I just knew would ROCK, and [...]

Teaching the tween to cook…..

First of all – I said tween.  I’m going to hell.
So I’ve had this …. affliction lately.  I’ve been cooking.  Yes, cooking.  Someone pick my mother up – I think she’s convinced that the apocolypse has happened.
Okay, now that she’s upright again, I can’t explain it.  I just can’t.  I looked at my pretty pink [...]