I have told my kids at least 100 times today to wash their hands. Considering their age, it seems ridiculous to me to have to constantly remind them, but damn if they can't seem to remember that constant handwashing is helpful in kicking lingering diseases collective asses. My kids have been sick fo...

First night...sucked. Second night...sucked less, but still was not great. Third night....continues the suckage but has escalated due to not one match in the house that I can find, negating lighting the candles, no kids as both are out for the night, no food, and no joy whatsoever. I think I'm prett...

It was the worst of times. It was not the best of times. It sucked. I cried. A lot. Yesterday the Girl begged to go to Boyfriend's house for a while. There were to be both teenage mothers and babies there for party and she wanted to see the newest of the babies. They were decorating a Christmas tree...

We've had a really tough couple of weeks. I mean really tough. I've worked hard to be positive through it, but I'm wearing thin with the positive stuff. I'm certainly not able to share everything, but these are the highlights: The phone company shut off the phone because I couldn't pay the bill. I s...

The Girl had the biggest screaming temper tantrum I've seen in about 10 years this morning. She was seething mad. I mean jumping up and down and screaming at the top of her lungs and starting to toss a chair at me mad. Yelling non-stop for at least 15 minutes, crying, and just going completely balli...

I've been posting a lot about the Girl lately. She's making her presence very well known in the house. She's a bundle of raging hormones and frankly, I'm getting a bit tired of it. The screaming, the tantrumming, the threats. She's a real bundle of joy. I got home from my 4th trip to the grocery sto...

I needed to make bread today. All day. I needed to make a phone call before 4 today. I needed to transfer money to the MBTA site today. I needed to finish the laundry today. So what did I do? Absolutely freaking nothing to do with the house. I did not make a phone call, even though I was on the phon...

I've been busy today working on my new project and I am just not in the mood to be bothered. I don't mind a bit of interruption, but I am so frigging sick of various and sundry teenagers coming over and parking their butts on my sofa that I just can't stand any more. Thankfully, vacation ends tonigh...

Today I was meeting with our FST family therapist and we talked a lot about trying to keep remembering the good stuff instead of just focusing on all the negative stuff we're going through right now. It's hard to do that. All the tsuris that keeps piling up, one ridiculous episode atop another, make...