The Mommy Rant

Tomorrow is April Fool's Day. The pressure is on. I've sewed his pant legs together, hidden plastic bugs in his lunch box, and switc...

It happened again. I waited too long to take the Christmas greens out of the window boxes and a bird has built a nest in them. It's the ...

A very good day. They look like bear cubs! song: Sweet Dreams • artist: the Eurythmics

A very good lunch. song: Sweet Dreams • artist: the Eurythmics

C wrote a note to H, "I love you, H," it said. It was signed, "love and from C." Love and from? It seemed redundant, but...

For the love of Pete - they can put a rover on Mars, why can't they make the lining in a bag of cereal in such a way that it's possi...

C went to a birthday party yesterday and came home with one of the hollow legs off the donkey-shaped pinata. Tonight he had it on his arm an...

Dear Liz, Holy cr*p. I have already changed three dirty diapers this morning including one that necessitated an impromptu baby bath and a ch...

Today is St. Patrick's Day, if you are of that ethnic persuasion, or just like to drink green beer and sing the unicorn song in crowded ...

The other day I came across the word "termagant" in the biography of Piet Mondrian. He wasn't a termagant, someone in his circ...

OMG Tina - Angus is so cute! I seriously wanted to name one of the twins Angus! I love that name! Who would mess with a kid named Angus? Ken...

So it's okay for him to figure skating in the ice show - but it's not okay for his mom to give him a kiss on the cheek for good luck...

C told me they played a "really boring" game in P.E. yesterday. "They played this music and you had to make the letters Y M C...

Kids never seem to know what they want do they? Or maybe it's that they're never happy with what they have - in which case they are ...

On Sunday C and H buried a time capsule in the back yard. The capsule was a peanut butter jar filled with a variety of random objects and a ...

My son can no longer have strawberry yogurt in his lunch box. The other boys make fun of him, "because it's pink." "What ...

Here are some ways that I deal with feelings of total frustration brought on by my children in situations, like the car, where I can't p...

Hey! My watch is telling the right time again! song: Time of Your Life • artist: Green Day

Last summer, by happenstance, I read the super-hero graphic novel that's opening today as a movie. Even though I won't be seeing the...

Speaking of Michael Jackson, on Sunday I heard "Man in the Mirror" played three times on Sirius radio - two different stations. Th...