Yes, there are enough super-duper annoying kid habits to write volumes! The wranglers have tried various methods to drive me to the asylum, all carefully calculated. Trying to outscream one another has been very popular this week. So has stomping, growling, and an all-time favorite of mine, bickering!Let’s take for…
Yes, I faintly recall that I used to have a life outside of the house, kids and dogs. I even left the country once, for two years, to Germany. What happened? Oh yea, I’m a Mom now. The orbit that I entered 10 years ago, is the most limiting, wacked-out elliptical…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Four decades after landing men on the moon, NASA is returning to Earth’s orbiting companion, this time with a set of robotic twins that will measure lunar gravity while chasing one another in circles. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/05/nasa-grail-moon-probes_n_949485.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009I’ve had robotic twins chasing one another around for years.…
Aww, come on kids, your Mom is not freaking out, she’s just entering the midlife crisis orbit. It’s an uncomfortable place to be, but I hear it’s part of life. The psychologist Carl Jung once said, “it is a normal part of maturing.” Holy crap, and I thought I was…
Really, wranglers? Dad hasn’t even landed in Germany for his “important conference” right next door to the local beer hall, and you guys are in the bickering orbit already! Is it too late for me to have an important meeting somewhere, anywhere? It’s beginning to feel like some…
What’s up with tween daughters these days? Their emotions are all over the place! One minute I’m getting, “Oh Mom, you’re the best!” and a nanosecond later they’re acting like an out of control grizzly bear. Mommies In Orbit would love to have a jet pack. Yes, really, just…
Have kids ever come with instructions? What about back in the Wild West days? Did the pioneers really have time while travelling across the plains in a covered wagon to read “how to raise wranglers?” Maybe they held a nightly reading group around the campfire to discuss child-rearing, ya think? Do…
Anyone else having trouble focusing on what to accomplish this time of year? So many thoughts raced through my head this morning while drinking my coffee. I really did have good intentions to get something done!It’s still hot and dry here, so revamping the yard is out of the…
Who has the kind of kids who run through the house for apparently no reason except to drive their parents nuts? Rocket Boy, rightly named, runs all over the place. He runs to the pantry, the dinner table, upstairs to bed, to the library, but only inside the house!!…