Do you ever have one of those days where things are just all jumbled up and there’s no direction? Personally I do much better with a schedule, and during summer break, that just doesn’t exist. I’m the first to admit, I don’t know what to do with my…
What is it about our kids who don’t HEAR us frustrated parents when we announce it’s time for dinner, or bedtime, or even going somewhere. My kids have a famous saying that they hurl at me all the time,” But Mom, that’s the FIRST time you told us to!!!!””Yes, dear, IT IS…
I’ve been doing some reading about NASA”s spacecraft, “Dawn” that just recently began orbiting the giant asteroid named “Vesta.” Dawn will orbit Vesta until July 2012 and then the spacecraft will head off to another object in the asteroid belt named, “Ceres,” a dwarf planet.”Though they both reside in…
What can we do with the wranglers during a midwestern heatwave? We can’t send them outside, lock the doors and tell them to just slurp water out of the hose when they’re thirsty. At 100 degrees, it’s too hot to do much of anything. Even swimming has been pushed off until…
Twenty-nine days until school starts, but hey who’s counting? I’m not, I have a counter on my blog that does the glorious countdown for me. It’s not that I don’t like the idea of being with my kids 24/7, it’s just that I DO value my sanity! These wranglers…
Here in our part of the country, the Midwest, we just about know when it’s the middle of summer. Flowers and plants are huge and lush. Noisy creatures put on a show after sundown, and the wranglers have traded in their flip-flops for bare feet. Heck, we were so…
OK, nature, what’s all the racket going on outside my window? I appreciate all kinds of music, but this is downright annoying. First you send us millions of cicadas who emerge from the earth like winged aliens, with no sense of direction during flight. They frighten our kids,…
What our backyard looks like in July.OK, so this is what it felt like to walk outside yesterday and today, a blazing bonfire of 100 degrees and add in the dew point and humidity and we’re pushing 110-115 degrees!Our local forecast for July is beginning to sound like the…
Raising kids, one orbit at a time, is not what I want to hear sometimes. You know the days when you just want to pull the blankets over your head and say, “No more, no more parenting!” “I want out!” Every stage of a child’s life is so different from the…
OK, I could barely believe my eyes, right in front of me at Bed, Bath and Beyond, was one of the wackiest gadgets I’ve ever seen, “EasyFeet.” Never bend over again to clean your feet. I always thought it was clean the house and wash your feet, but,…