What I’m really thinking!”Oh, how I long for the good ole days! When I used to run wild and didn’t have a care in the world.” The St. Louis Zoo is a wonderful place to visit, and it’s free! I think my kids really feel a connection to…
Well here we are on Day Five, count ’em 5 days into Spring Break 2011 and the wranglers are complaining of sheer boredom. Oh my! What should we do about it? We’ve had gorgeous weather, but that’s about to take a nose dive, back into the 40’s for…
If you ever get a chance to visit Missouri, try to make a stop at Elephant Rocks State Park, this place is amazing! We took a road trip with the little wranglers in the big minivan. The kids didn’t have any idea what was in store for them.…
Senor Frog and Friends!OKEE-DOKEE wranglers, so Spring Break is finally here, now what? It’s a good thing to just hang out in our PJ’s and play video games, watch Spongebob Squarepants, and just generally CHILL! Senor Frog seems content since the snow is gone and he has some…
Mommy says, “You will not complain!!”Kids, I realize that you want this and you want that, but these requests are out of this orbit. Rocket Boy has a computer set-up that most kids would love to have. He has a laptop, and a separate keyboard and large monitor,…
This snow really sucks!Mr. Frog says, “I’m not happy about this weather!” Here in the Midwest we received whiskey barrels of rain, and a surprise snowstorm yesterday. Was I really at the garden center buying spring flowers over the weekend? Are all the flower beds raked and tidy…
These guys get me!Yeah, it’s been one of those weekends, where Mommies In Orbits feels out of sorts. You know when things just suck and you just can’t put your finger on the reason. I know I can always turn to my canine buddies. Smart Border Collie has…
You know who you are, you’re a weekend warrior. It’s almost spring and the yard is a disaster. So you grab your brand new gardening gloves and shovel. Then you blaze a trail …….. raking, digging, yanking, fighting with yard waste bags to stay open and planting. Finally,…
What’s next? Now one of my kids wants to go on the Nickelodeon “SlimeTime LIVE” cruise?And that’s not all, featuring, “Nick’s signature slime!”OK, now come on, how can a commercial about being slimed on a huge ship with Spongebob, be so appealing to kids? Once they have that…
I recently watched a great program called, “How The Universe Works.” Little did I realize that these distant galaxies are a lot like my kids. For example, the Andromeda galaxy and the Milky Way galaxy are on a collision course, oh yea, in about five to six billion…