Category Archives: Ah the Joy of !*&? Family

My sister is 5 years younger than I and while that’s not much now that we’re both in our 40’s it has always seemed to add to our differences.  She is, in many ways, my opposite.  She’s blond with hazel … Continue reading →

I received a progress report on my youngest child’s social skills group.  (Hey!  Its free!) Anyway so I usually just scan these things but I noticed it had a section of “Parent’s will do” and listed a bunch of things … Continue reading →

I hope everyone had a good holiday this year.  I know a few of you were actually worried my holiday would be “very interesting” but rest assured all went well. My brother’s family joined my family at my Mother’s for … Continue reading →

Last Sunday I did a double birthday party for my two oldest children.  Boy am I glad that’s over!  There is a reason I am not a professional party planner!  Why did I do it?  It was the “golden” birthday … Continue reading →

Last Saturday the kids and I did Stranger Class.  There were several break-ins in my mother’s neighborhood and she got the full scoop at a Neighborhood Watch meeting called by the local Police Dept.  This “gang” of thieves would go door … Continue reading →

We came home the other day and our last pet… our goldfish… was gasping in it’s tank.   Floating on its side and just listing about.   I thought for sure it was dead but it would give a body wiggle and … Continue reading →

I’ve almost always had pets.  I don’t know if I’ve had them because I’m tactile and I love touching or I’ve become tactile because I always had pets.  But both are true.  I am incredibly tactile (I LOVE to touch … Continue reading →

So in the mini-farm saga of my mother’s hippie version of my growing up years we left off at the arrival of the 100 baby chicks. They were quickly transported to the built coop of my mother’s friend, Karen Flinders.  … Continue reading →

The following is an excerpt (with commentary by me in parenthesis) of an email from the home front while I was away at the convention.    Dinner was a hit. We had sausage on a stick, fresh off the charcoal … Continue reading →

Like many young girls I dreamed of how wonderful it would be to have kids.  Yes, yes, you can stop laughing now.  I fantasized (I call it that because let’s face it there wasn’t a shred of reality to it) … Continue reading →