Toddlers Demanding Coffee and English Regularity

Brontë (pointing through the car window): Mermaid coffee! Me: Yep! That’s Starbucks and we bought their coffee earlier. Brontë: Mommy and Brontë had coffee. Me: Well, mommy had coffee and you had a strawberry smoothie. Brontë: No, COFFEE. Me: You loved the smoothie. You drained it. Brontë (outraged): NO! I NOT BABY, I HAD COFFEE! […]

Six Word Story Challenge: Anticipation

Come on over and participate in the Six Word Story Challenge at Sometimes Stellar Storyteller! It’s lots of fun and anyone can play. This week’s theme is anticipation. I threw in two entries (you’re allowed to do that!). They were: He said, “Special dinner. Dress nice.” You and I need to talk. Kind of opposite scenarios, […]

The Underrated World of Daddy Hacks

I’d like to begin today’s posting by stating the obvious: men and women are raised differently. And I think these different expectations result in different parenting approaches. Women, for example, are brought up with thousands of idealized images floating in our heads… snapshots of how a perfect life is supposed to look. This is the perfect outfit, the right interior design, […]

Nominated for the Sisterhood of the Word Bloggers Award!

Thank you Becky for nominating me for a Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award! These awards and challenges can be a lot of fun. Becky is the author of Welcome to My Life, Part 2, a very personal, raw and authentic blog that I follow. She tried to trace the origin of this award and found interesting info […]

How to Be A White Girl

I always knew I was white, but never realized HOW white until my mother ran 23andme genetic tests on many family members a while back. Because people assume I’m a foreigner all the time, I had long suspected something else was in the mix. Strangers often ask me where I’m from and when I tell them California […]

Bizarre Search Terms

When you have a WordPress account, your Stats page provides info about your blog readership. Stuff like how many hits you’ve gotten today, what countries they’re coming from, and any search terms that were used that lead to your site. Well apparently, today someone navigated to my site after entering “what is a d1ck beebot” into […]

How To Avoid Movie Fights With Your Spouse

My husband and I try to have a date night every week, which we think is important after kids. So most Fridays, John and I drop the little ones off at their grandparents’ house for the evening before going out to dinner and a movie. Problem is, like many couples, we have really different tastes in movies. He […]

Six Word Story Challenge: Supernatural

“Someone in the mirror isn’t here.” That was my entry for this week’s Six Word Story Challenge at Sometimes Stellar Storyteller, on the theme of the supernatural. These challenges are fun and anyone can participate. Why not hop on over and give it a try? 🙂

Things You Never Pictured Yourself Saying

Things I found myself saying at the park today: “Brontë, if you would keep your shoes on, the ground would stop hurting you.” And: “Bridget, we don’t chew on old pantyhose we dug out of the sandbox.” If kids have taught me nothing else, it’s that our fear of germs is learned. They MUST be building […]

3 Day 3 Quote Challenge – Day 3

Today is my final installment of the Three Day, Three Quote challenge! Thanks again to Simon for nominating me. Since I went with inspirational quotes for the first two days, I thought I’d change things up on Day 3 with something funny from Tallulah Bankhead (who was a real character). My quote of the day: (Upon seeing a […]