1/16: Let’s go to church, find my joker, and then go home. 1/19: (when realize he’s about to get in trouble for being naughty) No!  Don’t defeat me! 1/21:  Daddy, you don’t have milkies.  Mummy has milkies.  But you still have flowers. 1/29:  (as Mack) BumbleBee, I’m poopy.  The muck is in my diaper. 2/26:  […]

Read More Blue’s Clues

Is it strange that as I watch, transfixed, the news waiting for the tsunami that I miss Hawaii even more than I did before? But I do. I love those people, I love those islands, I love the life we lived there. I remember hearing the older ones share their memories of the last big […]

Read More Holding on with Hawaii

See here. Now go get your own!

Read More Sometimes I’m Brilliant

I decided not to blog today. I have several drafts in the works but decided not to ruin any of them by working on them today. Turns out I don’t think well on 2 hours of sleep. In case you were wondering, sleeping in a racecar bed is not as glamourous as you would think, […]

Read More Thursdays Thoughts

There’s a special luncheon at the school on Friday. The people from wherever who come to bestow upon us the Distinguished School award really like a dog and pony show. Last week in the Thursday folders we received an invitation to the luncheon. It was promptly recycled as I was pretty sure that Boy Blue […]

Read More Distinguished School, yes. Distinguished me? uhhh

It had been a long day. It wasn’t especially bad, just long. It was a school holiday and I seem to have a soft spot for single mothers, so we took in one of Little Red’s classmates, whom we’ve watched now for a total of four days. She’s not a bad kid, but the boys […]

Read More My Sweet Stewardship

Zen Mama: What time would you like to meet at the park? Vicky: Well, it’s almost 9 now, let’s say 10? Zen Mama: That works perfectly. My extra one will be here by then and I will be completely recovered from my delusions that I can do something this morning.

Read More A Healthy Dose of Realism

This week I got the following letter from the collections agency: “In compliance with your request, RMS has closed this file and has returned it to Orbitz.com.” FINALLY!

Read More CLOSURE!

Now that we are getting back to normal after the flood, I sat down to finish my taxes this morning. I solved my earlier problem (and it only took three different worksheets and an hour or two of my time!) and waded my way through to the end of the federal taxes. When I saw […]

Read More Today’s Taxes