Finding Yourself Despite Yourself

When you wake up and it is raining, nay pouring, one should consider pulling the covers right back up over their head.

When you wake up to stormy weather and a head cold, complete with fever, bed is probably the best place to be.

When you wake up discover it is pouring, you have a head cold, [...]

This is Baby Boy’s face as of last week. I like to think that he is yawning and not yelling “Mother!! What the ***bleep*** are you doing to me! Stop smashing me with that f*cking wand thing, damn it!”

I go back in 3 weeks for another ultrasound. Apparently the boy is growing an entire week [...]

Do you ever look at one of your children and think “where did you come from,” refusing to believe that either you or the man you love could have produced such an interesting specimen of a person. You swear up and down that you never colored on walls, dumped your mother’s files, or drop kicked [...]

Why the $25 DVD/CD player works better than our $300 one? Trying to play a DVD on the Onkyo? Better pray there are no scratches, smudges, specks, flecks or even anything pondering landing on the surface of your DVD. I have an entire CD holder crammed packed with DVDs and CDs that Tessa so kindly [...]

“Christmas tree, mama! Christmas trees!! Let’s stop n get one!”

“I promise we’ll get a Christmas tree after Thanksgiving”

(collective kid moans groans, pissing and whining)

“Thanksgiving will be fun. Your Auntie and uncle and cousin are coming over. Mama is cooking a big turkey for us to eat with..”

“We don’t eat turkey silly mama. D’hey covered in [...]