The Mommy Rant

learning how to make bracelets out of tiny rubber bands and having a Pete the Cat song stuck in my head.

  Check out the never-been-opened, circa 1970 alarm clock I just got at the thrift shop for two dollars! Made in the USA! I looked all su...

Varmints ate my second crops of beets. When will I learn? Next year I am going to cover them in fencing. Double fencing. Eat my chicken wi...

Today we went to the dentist. Not just any dentist though - a pediatric dentist.  Because H had a cavity, our usual dentist recommended thi...

It has recently come to my attention that Jaws, the movie that scared the bejeebers out of landlocked and coastal dwellers alike in the su...

We went to a cookout last weekend with not one, but two, bouncy houses. One hell of a kids party right? You bet. The only problem was that m...

Separated at birth: Les Nessman, radio newsman known for award-winning farm reports, and Dwight Schrute: beet farmer. song: Still ...

Sorry, but if Hall and Oates are playing at the Life is Good Festival - that's not going to be good. song: Out of Touch • artist: Hal...

So the cup C needed for baseball led to the cracking of a number of jokes and comments on the package's advertising.  I explained what i...

Research concludes that lack of sleep accelerates the aging process. Conversely more sleep can slow down the aging process. I guess that m...

Last night the twins referred to Cal as their "school bus teacher."  I didn't bother to correct them by revealing that he...

Let's hope that for the kindergarteners, picture day is before lunch. song: Photograph • artist: Def Leppard

My husband turned off the tea kettle this morning which I'd left it on when I went to the bus stop with C. Later, I turned off the coff...

The twins were super excited to go to kindergarten this morning because "today Mrs. Anderson is going to teach us to read!" I exp...

What drunken sailor, high on outlet shopping, numbered the exits on the Maine Turnpike?  It starts out normally enough when you get on in...

The cat caught a mouse in the twins' room this morning - as if the first day of school wasn't exciting enough. As of 8:45 AM, I a...

This spider lives outside the front door of our relatives' house in Nova Scotia. It's huge. As creepy as it is to go out the ...

Have you seen the new Canadian $20 bills? They are all high tech and shiny with a clear window in them and holograms and made to be more dur...

En route to Nova Scotia. Christine once explained that vanity plates are ridiculously cheap in New Hampshire, hence, everyone has one. No...

I hate it when there's a decomposing mouse smell coming from your kids' bedroom and your kids aren't old enough to be leaving ha...