The Mommy Rant

A Halloween koan: If my kids are the only ones trick or treating on our street, do I still have to fill a bowl with candy? song: Dream Po...

Because it's not bad enough that the World Series gets played at the end of October - they have to air commercials about Christmas betwe...

Low Expectations: Me: "Your shoe is untied, didn't we double knot it this morning?" Him: "School's six hours! Knots...

For this weekend's read aloud I thought I'd choose something appropriate to the holiday and so I went with Jean Fritz's "Wh...

Looks like I inadvertently left some treats in with the Halloween decorations when I stored them in the attic last year. In case you were wo...

thinking that bumper stickers declaring the driver's children have been chosen as "student of the week" are dumb, but secretly...

If you're ready to leave the hotel 15 minutes before it's actually check out time, it feels like you're not getting your money...

The people who are ranting and raving about not wanting the government to tell them what to do when it comes to healthcare sound like stubbo...

When you're over 40 the card game Concentration could pretty much be renamed Just Guessing. song: Guess Things Happen That Way • artis...

So we can hike in the White Mountains tomorrow because they haven't been shut down (yet), but if we get into trouble on the mountain the...

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...