The Mommy Rant

Alan O'Day, as I'm sure everyone knows, wrote and performed the chart topping 1977 song Undercover Angel. He's also the writer b...

more rain brings mushroom rings.

Last Sunday C came downstairs and told me there was a butterfly, or a moth, in his window and it couldn't fly very well because it must ...

H doesn't hold his you-know-what while he's peeing. I try to encourage him to in the desperate hope we can keep the bathroom clean. ...

Okay, okay, I remember all those nice, supportive things I said to you about the public schools; but you never mentioned "inventive spe...

A series of events triggered by yesterday's half-day of school found me pushing the twins around Pine Bay at 9AM instead of at our usual...

Aren't pockets in baby clothes funny? As if babies have anything they need to carry around. There are no pockets in any of the three hem...

At the Richard's family clam bake this weekend H amused himself by climbing atop a rock and throwing his stuffed dog down a small hill. ...

I like Fall best of all.

Good news! His made-up jokes are starting to get better. At least these two: Q: What bear likes rain? A: A drizzly bear Q: What fish costs t...

There are two important holidays coming up that I think you ought to know about since you likely didn't read the memo and missed out on ...

Scarecrow: I haven't got a brain... only straw. Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? Scarecrow: I don't know......

The president screwed with daylight savings, why couldn't he do something useful and initial the 48-hour day so I could have the time to...

I may be a luddite at heart but thank heavens for digital photography. I'd go broke printing up the other 44 shots where they aren't...

Where would we be without irony? Nowhere funny that's for sure. On Monday we picked vegetables from our garden at the service center. Th...

My kids, especially the newly-minted six year old, are heavily into the joke and knock-knock phase. In the kiddie chonology of phases I beli...

It seems as if I must have already covered this topic from top to bottom but having observed yet another kiddie party this weekend, I'd ...

Has anyone heard this? At Courtney and Carolyn's post road race party I met a woman who told me that as far as the number of children in...

If there was a t-shirt that read "I survived my son's birthday party," I would own it. It all started when C requested a piñat...

Here's a confession. I think that Jimi Hendrix is overrated. Of all the songs they play on WMVY, including the ones that they ruthlessly...