I have a love/hate relationship with smoothies. Having a Jamba Juice nearby fueled it. So very easy to pop in there in the morning, drop 10$ or so bucks a day on two smoothies and be on my way. Drop more on days the kids are with me/us.
I have Kathy Bates (as her character in The Waterboy) in my head saying that. Last night I put all of our monthly bills and expenses for each pay period from now until January 6 down on paper. I proceeded to flip my shit and look into shutting things off. I then realized I don’t …
You know, my mom was not a neat freak. My mom kept the house clean enough that it wasn’t literally dirty, but it was always lived in and cluttered. We had a lot of stuff. We still have a lot of stuff and I house-keep the same way. Cluttered, but clean. Which brings us to …
The kids have a half day tomorrow, and I picked up some seeds and soil last week at Target, so tomorrow we’re going to start them. I also picked up some paper cups because of the recent cold – we’re starting them inside. Any tips?
Just everything! Everyone is feeling better (see below), Channukah is over and the little one keeps asking me when it’s going to be Channukah again. We burned a Yule log (and roasted marshmallows over it ;) ). I have five bored kids home till after New Years, but I have work to do, so we’re …
We introduced the children to the wonder that is Warner Brothers last week. I’m sure they’ve seen it before. I mean, I grew up on this stuff. I can recite these cartoons from memory… the ones they showed before they started editing out the gratuitous (and totally non-mimicable) violence. So Michael pulls this classic up …
We can. My oldest has been telling me for a week now that they might be getting the H1N1 vaccine at school and I’ve been telling him for a week that he is not getting the H1N1 vaccine and if he feels sick to tell me so I can monitor him and take him to …
