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The Best Way To Spread Christmas Cheer Is Singing Loud For All To Hear
I’ve been watching Neil’s Annual Blogger Christmahanukwanzaakah Online Holiday Concert for four years now. And every year I swear we are going to contribute a song. And every year I chicken out because...
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40 Years Ago I Turned 4
It’s 12:06am. I received my Barbie suitcase for my fourth birthday. My mom and aunts sewed all of the clothing. I still have most of it. When I was 18 and found out that my mom had kept most of my...
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Are You Ready To Become A Parent – Take This Simple Quiz
Take this easy quiz to see if you are ready to become a parent! 1. You can be a nurse without training! You can clean-up vomit – from floors, walls, clothing, hair, bodies, furniture, your MacBook,...
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Three Is Hard
I let Eloise stay home from school last Wednesday. Sure, I let her believe that she was staying home because her teeth hurt from her new retainer...but in all honesty I welcomed the thought of having...
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If I Had A Coupon Blog
It’s always been my dream to be a savvy mom coupon/financial blogger who goes on and on about how easy it is to save money. Like on Mondays I will talk about the awesome coupons from the Sunday paper,...
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The One With The 3 Year Old
I had to meet someone today for a craigslist transaction. Our text exchange: her – Noon St. Paul hotel lobby me – Okay – will be a bit late cuz of parking her – text me when u r here me – you’re not a...
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Breaking News – Girls Pass Gas!
Conversation from the couch… Eloise: Ohmygosh Astrid is that your butt I smell. Astrid: Probably, why? Eloise: Well that is just gross – I don’t want to smell that – go to the bathroom! Astrid: Well...
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City Girl
I paid $8 for parking today which really doesn’t seem like much for a big city, but I only needed to park there for 10 minutes so I could pop-in somewhere, and the only street parking I could find was...
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The Facts Of Life
Astrid, why don’t you go play with that little boy over there as he looks like he might be three years old too! Mom, I don’t play with boys. They’re stinky. Boys aren’t stinky, Astrid. But I...
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Sisters With Boobs
Astrid knows most of the lyrics to any Taylor Swift song. In fact she was up from 2am until 4am last night singing Trouble, Stay Stay Stay and We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together. Sometimes the...
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Something’s Gotta Give
I sat down with Astrid’s preschool teacher today so she could walk me through the process on how the preschoolers are going to send a letter to a grandparent next week. “Did you not get the letter...
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Our Date
I know all (12) of you have been waiting to hear how our BIG DATE went last Friday night. The night started out quite fine – I dropped the kids off at my aunts at about 4:30 and then came home and...
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Oh Canada!
I love my children dearly. I love each of them just so much that sometimes I’m overwhelmed with this strange and crazy I love I have for them. Like I want to hug them up and tackle them with kisses and...
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Jeans and Kitties and Nursing Bras, Oh My!
Yesterday, I cleaned out my entire closet and every single kitchen cabinet. I filled four large bags with garbage and another three bags for Goodwill. I’m not sure that I had seen the very, very back...
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Praise The iPad
We were suppose to leave for Indiana today at 2pm. But then I decided that I didn’t want to arrive in Indiana at 3am with three tired kids and I would have flashbacks to my high school years when I...
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6 Good Things About Summer #vlogging
Summer starts here officially in about 42 hours. That’s when my kids get out of school and we go out for ice cream. They’ve pretty much already emptied out their desks and dumped them into our garbage....
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America Has Talent
…except in our house. I am not a talented person. It’s okay, don’t feel sorry for me. Let me go ahead and list some things that I cannot do well – play an instrument, sing, garden, cook, bake, craft,...
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Why I’m Not A Travel Blogger #girlsaretrippin
I’m sitting her on an airbed(this is an official term for an official item that is damn comfortable) at my in-law’s house in Connecticut. I’m not actually sitting on the bed though, I’m sitting on a...
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Midwestern Girl
I poured Astrid’s milk into a coffee cup at lunch today. As she picked it up by the handle she said “This is how the France people drink their milk.” Which makes her not qualified to ever travel to...
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New Direction
Eloise is mad at me. I was talking about her last night, in front of her, and I was actually telling a story about something she did that I was PROUD of…but it didn’t matter. Eloise doesn’t like to be...
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