If I have any long time readers here, they might remember when this happened right before a Girl Scout trip. Well- I did it again. I was rushing around, getting ready for a Girl Scout event. I had to get something from the local community center. I had Youngest with me at the time. I pulled up at th...

Telling Evangeline that no, she can NOT kiss her own elbow. Oh, how she tried to prove me wrong! "Maybe if I do this. Maybe if I do that. Maybe if you help me. Hold it so I can kiss it!" LOL. I'm mean, aren't I. (Well, she laughed too, so maybe not.) Evangeline, for whatever reason, rarely cries or ...

When Ana was three - and to an extent, even now - her knee-jerk response to a quick "ANA!" was "You're mean, I hate you, I'm not your FRIEND!" and a steadfast refusal for the whole time-out process. You put her in her room until she calmed down, and until she was calm she'd make SURE you knew she wa...

At  what point in life does it become alright to become complacent? Honestly?  I am full of life, passion, energy, and emotions.   Why is that wrong to want to maintain? I know life is always throwing us curve balls but shouldn't we try to overcome them?  Shouldn...

I'm going to attempt to write this up in the order that she told it, though it's too much to ask me to get her actual words. Ms. M - her science teacher - woke up and something horrible happened. She was sleeping, and the first thing she saw in the morning (later clarified to "when she got into the ...

Now - just repeat the title of this post in the most snarky, most snide David Spade-esque voice you can imagine.. Yeah, my day is going *just* that well. Shrieked at Eldest this morning. Another fine parenting moment in my life. I did manage to get Youngest on the bus without popping a blood vessel....

On the train, we told jokes. Well, I told jokes, and Evangeline tried to keep up. So, how do you know if there's an elephant in your refrigerator? Because their are footprints in your peanut butter! How do you know if there are two elephants in your refrigerator? Because you hear them giggling when ...

I did get a verbal response from Target customer service on Friday afternoon. Unfortunately, I was not home to take the call. The Target rep left a very nice message, repeating several times how sorry she was about my experience. I am still giggling over it - it was pretty funny. Apparently I will b...

Well, it looks like Darla has wrangled some more time on this mortal coil. Her urinalysis came back just fine. Bloodwork is normal. So, after all that, why the hell, after 19 years, has she decided to piss on my floors? We've decided that we have to put her in a kennel for the time we are in Florida...

They've taken the hint from the last time we complained, and it's ten, and they've turned off their music. Ten o'clock on the dot, mind, which is not what I consider ideal, but they did turn off their music without, to my knowledge, anybody having to go out and specifically tell them to knock it the...