Slowly But Surely.
Since Sunday night, I see signs of Miss Hal slowly but surely acting more like herself. I don’t know what that two weeks plus from hell was about and I hope like crazy that we don’t run into the same...
View ArticlePass The Gravy, Please.
Hola, Cheekies! It’s back to a normal schedule this week, thank God. I love Christmas but I was soooo ready to have it over with this year! I got that tree out of the house so fast I left a trail of...
View ArticleThe poop, the poop and nothing but the poop.
So you guys know how I feel about the public pools. Germ infested, hot, crowded, no shade, nastiness that makes my OCD go into overdrive for 24 hours of non-stop hand washing and heavy bleach use. So...
View ArticleOh my God, oh my God, oh my God.
I sat here early this morning drinking my coffee and watching the news and this came on. I nearly threw up. Being the mother of a special needs child, I have had nightmares almost all of her life...
View ArticleThe uproar over the doll’s junk is making me nuts.
So apparently there’s an uproar on the interwebs this week regarding a boy doll with boy junk? Really? Is this an issue? I had an anatomically correct boy doll back in the 70’s! My baby Joey doll...
View ArticleWhy was a 9 year old little girl shooting an Uzi?
I typically try to stay away from opinionated posts. It’s tough to write a piece knowing that many will be opposed to what you think and believe in. But this is something that I don’t want to keep...
View ArticleI can’t even with this shit.
Oh, you guys…I can’t even with this. I saw this earlier in the day and wrote a short blurb on FB, but the more I think about it, the angrier I get. Is this mother really this clueless? She says, “For...
View ArticleThat’s what I get for asking.
Hallee swims every week in school. Last week I sent in what she considers an incorrectly colored towel. It was green. She wanted white. Any parent of an autistic kid knows that once these kids get...
View ArticleBlogging with kids.
The first blogger that I started following that posted a lot of pictures of her children was Dooce, way back when. I started following her before she had kids, in fact, and love her still. She is a...
View ArticleNo habla espanol.
I never took Spanish in school. I took French and German. I never wanted to learn Spanish. And yet here I am, 27 years later learning it. Why? My 6th grader started it in school this semester....
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