Last week I was washing my hands in a public restroom in City Creek (a shopping mall in SLC) when I heard the toilet flush in one of the stalls, and out came a toddler girl, followed by…a man. I must have looked incredulous, because the guy immediately started running at the mouth like a […]
Tag: parenting
Graduating Back to College
Well, I did it. I took my kid to college and left him there. To get over it I’m now hanging out in the West Indies like some hippy-dippy nomad, meditating alone on a deserted beach, and drowning my sorrows in rum and various fresh fruit juices. All seems apropos to me. Before I got […]
Dorm Sweet Dorm
This week I moved my son into his dorm at the University of Miami. It took us all of two minutes because he had one duffle bag of clothes, one MacBook, one backpack full of music and books, and four instruments (an alto sax, tenor sax, clarinet and flute). Now granted, we had to go […]
Mother Bloggers Tackles the Big Questions and Mommy Guilt
Have you had the big talk with your kids yet? And no, I’m not talking about getting them to explain to you how the PS-3 you already own can be used in place of an expensive DVR-blueray player. (Although if you haven’t had that discussion yet, you should. It can save you hundreds of dollars.) […]
Pee Pants to the Rescue
As a mom I’ve often had to stop for frequent bathroom breaks on long family car trips…usually because of me. Having two sons it’s always irked me that if they have to go to the bathroom after we’ve embarked on that long ribbon of highway, all we have to do is pull off at the […]
Moms From A to Zed
I just read my good friend Susie’s latest blog post, Guilt, the Gift that Keeps on Giving, over at Not Your Average Mom, and I must say I can totally relate. I’ve included a direct link to the post at the end of this post, but in nutshell, Susie spaced on going to her seven-year-old’s […]
Resolutions and Accountability
We are a week into the new year and I still haven’t come up with any 2013 resolutions for myself. Seems like every time I ask anyone about their New Year’s resolutions, I get the same stock answer; “I don’t believe in resolutions,” which is just a cop out. Personally I do believe in resolutions. […]
Santa’s Elf #12 Reveals Kids’ Christmas Wishes
As told to guest author Jane Bongato in this whimsical, Christmas guest post. Thanks, Jane! Hello! I’m Santa’s Elf #12, in charge of Kids’ Christmas letters. However, I started out as Santa’s Elf #1798 in Shipping and Receiving, but over the decades I worked my way up. The last Elf #12 left to become a […]
I Used to Be Cool
I was folding clothes the other day when I objectively looked at a pair of my sensible, Spandex, industrial-strength underwear and thought, Ew, yuck. These are NOT cool. These are so UNCOOL they make Betty White draped in a gansta hoodie and pajama jeans look cool. No way would you ever see these lame-o granny […]
Guest Blogger? Me? Thanks, BirthdayFreebies.com
Heads up, everybody. Right now I’m a guest blogger on a fun website called BirthdayFreebies.com, a free search engine that helps you find national and local birthday offers. As the host of my own popular blog, I’m often asked to be a guest blogger on other blogs. The point of this being that these other […]