Read this. Then return. I’ll wait… Done? Good. Continue… One year later, I’ve yet to pull off anything spectacular. I guess I was kinda close to making a Brewers v. Phillies / Packers opening kickoff getaway happen for next week but really I could make the money or the times […]
There were 7 pairs of pint-sized, mismatched socks in my last load of laundry. This means several things: Summer is over. –It will soon be sweater weather. —-That is followed by hat, glove and scarf season. ——Then it will take even longer to get the hell out of the house […]
We’ve all heard this, right? Another parent or some random, judgmental prick bystander slings this darling of a phrase at you in the mall, at a playground, down the corn syrup aisle of the grocery store, during a family function (hello!). So what in the hell does this mean? What […]
Maybe you don’t know this. Maybe you should. Drop-side cribs, those bastions of convenience that allowed for easy delivery of sleeping infants to their firm mattresses without a step stool (for average-sized parents) or wrecking your back (for bigger folk, like me), have been banned. Outlawed. Recalled. You get the […]
We are well. The house, yard, and such are as they we’re yesterday morning. Not sure how you spent your Saturday afternoon, but we saw our first hurricane as the perfect opportunity to rearrange the furniture. The dining room table was moved onto the family room’s green carpet. The sofa […]
Condoms suck. Birth control pills suck. What sucks more? If you guessed hookers, you’re both correct and funny. Give yourself 10 OWTK points. But I was looking for ‘being outnumbered by your children’. That sucks. I’m petrified, absolutely PETRIFIED (CAPS LOCK WARRANTED) at the notion of having 3+ children. I’d […]
It’s tradition for us to grab an ice cream cone at Maggie Moo’s after the 1st day of school. Here is the Bear x 3 in order, after K, 1st, and just this afternoon after day 1 of 2nd grade.
I don’t recall the exact year, but I was young enough to still be feverishly interested in collecting football cards. For my birthday that year, my oldest brother went to a hobby shop/sports card store – not at all a frequent stop for him – and bought a mint condition […]
