The Mommy Rant

We won the car wash-themed raffle basket last night at the school art show/ice cream social. C wanted to wash the car when we got home - at ...

It was a good morning because the enormous bull frog and the box turtle that C and I passed while biking to school were both alive and well ...

when you praise your nine year old for taking the money you gave him to spend at the May Festival and buying two swords with it; because at ...

Words to live by from Mother Goose: A wise old owl Lived in an oak The more he saw The less he spoke The less he spoke The more he he...

song: Man in the Mirror • artist: Michael Jackson

Let's get this straight. I am only doing this because Kevin asked. Do not start sending me chain e-mails for recipes or tagging me for 2...

Yes. I am officially the kind of person who puts a leash on my cat and lets my kids walk her around the yard. Why does gay marriage seem ...

Musing on what's left of the Marconi Wireless Station in South Wellfleet for InsideOUT. song: Telephone Line • artist: Electric Lig...

Our veterinarian's college-age daughter has a cat named boyfriend. It's a brilliant name for averting nosey personal questions. ...

Is it just me or did the lilacs go by way too quickly this year? song: Purple Haze • artist: Jimmy Hendrix

Looks like I can either continue to wipe H's butt after #2 until he leaves for college, or, I can let him sink a half a roll of tp into ...

Good news! My kids dried off all the wet playground equipment outside the little library. With their butts. song: Where Do The Children P...

My favorite Maurice Sendak book was Pierre. I loved the scene where his parents offer to let him fold the folding chair if he'll just gi...

Parking jam on the potty. Guess everyone had to go all at once. song: Drive • the Cars

So the other night I'm reading Where the Wild Things Are to S and N for at least the 100th time. They get mad at the end if I read t...

Saturday night I'm Belly Dancing For a Cure in silk and coins; Sunday night I'm wearing a headlamp and biking around Pine Bay in the...

For the first time - ever - my kids fell asleep before I'd finished reading a bedtime story. I didn't quite know what to do so I jus...

Mrs. Arable figeted. "Fern says the animals talk to each other. Dr. Dorian, do you believe animals talk?" "I never heard on...

You never realize how much swearing there is in a PG movie (at least in a PG movie from the 1980s), until you watch it with your kids. son...

Ah, the Pledge of Allegiance controversy has come to Falmouth. Was our selectman trying to undermine the basic freedoms upon which our coun...