The Mommy Rant

I read the sign for Dipper Harbour as Diaper Harbour both on the way to and from St. John. I kept wondering why my children weren't sni...

If kids live so much more in the moment than adults how come H always asks - before we've even finished doing something - when are we go...

The breakwater dock is the social hub of Lower Wedgeport. All evening long cars and trucks drive on and off the dock. People come down to ...

So I drive us through Boston and to Belfast, and then I drive us to the boarder and on to St John. And I find our hotel room after only circ...

H and I are eating cookies in bed. We must be on vacation. song: Hotel California • artist: the Eagles

Low tide in the Bay of Fundy. song: The Tide is High • artist: Blondie

We picked up 80 bottles and cans from the woods behind NFES on the last day of school and did not donate the proceeds from the returnables t...

Happiness is a fridge full of fresh strawberries. song: Get Happy • artist: The Partridge Family

It's the news you've all been waiting for (now that the Stanley Cup is over) - students of Elena Griffin 's belly dancing class ...

Dutifully we waiting until June to plant the tomatoes so they wouldn't get cold. Looks like we should have waiting until July. song: ...

Now that C has finished his first season of travel soccer one of the other parents asked me if I was going to get a soccer mom bumper sticke...

"Mom, if it's against the law to relocate wild animals, why do they make Have-a-Heart traps?" song: Have A Heart • artist: B...

You would think that over the course of many years I would be an expert or at least passingly adept at both choosing appropriate birthday pa...

Another day another morning of hard breakfast cereal decisions and of having to convince my children of the improbable. "Yes. There...

"How come you didn't eat your watermelon?" C asked H as they emptied out their lunch leftovers into the sink this afternoon. ...

Aunt Betty passed away yesterday. She and my Uncle Mike raised seven children. I suspect, though my uncle was likely the disciplinarian, mo...

Hey! I just noticed that I can buy Barry Manilow's Mandy from iTunes for $1.29 but Could it Be Magic is only 99¢. Is Mandy really a whol...

Wednesday night Ken found out the hard way that my new    TV-B-Gone   really works. Because he had the mini van, with my keys, and my key c...

According to C, student behavior on the bus is deteriorating faster than a piece of cardboard left out in the rain. There are third graders ...

The problem with a three year old telling you "just a minute," is that they have no idea how long a minute is. song: Minute by M...