The Mommy Rant

Confession: sometimes I cook dinners that I know my children won't like just so there will be more leftovers for me. Ah delicious leftov...

Spill over from yesterday's post - otherwise known as "wait, wait, there's more!" So then there you are juggling six item...

On Sunday I took S & N to the coffee shop except that I didn't buy myself a cup of tea because I'd forgotten my travel mug at ho...

It really doesn't matter what we name the pet mice. Scabbers, Stewart, Al, Martin, Lucky, Phoebe, etc., etc.; they all wind up as Tubby ...

There's a chicken bone on the rug in S & N's room. Could it be that my twins are voodoo priests? song: That Old Black Magic •...

noticing that there's still an electrical plug in the playroom with a child protective cover over it and feeling nostalgic.

Raking leaves in our yard is like undertaking an archeological dig. Today I turned up six tennis balls, two Nerf footballs, and a street ho...

The twins asked me to come in to school and eat lunch with them today so I said I would. Seeing me having lunch with the twins made a littl...

The twins had their first dentist appointments last week and in case you are wondering - they LOVE going to the dentist. At least so far. Th...

It's amusing when chicken companies advertise their products as 100% vegetarian fed. Really? Your advertising company couldn't com...

Have you ever plopped down some wet cat food only to have your beloved kitty come over, take a sniff, and physically jump backwards as if ...

fishing toilet paper tubes out of the office trash can to take home for your son's pet mice.

I'm so pleased that drivers have completely dispensed with the use of blinkers. The unnecessary formality of alerting other drivers to ...

Really? Dunkin Donuts has an energy bar? Because you can't get enough of a jolt from eating a jelly doughnut with frosting? I was at ...

C made a replica of Thoreau's cabin! In Mindcraft. Funny. I don't remember Walden Pond being so pixilated. Transendental Blues •...

C noted today that, "whenever we can't find a book, it's always in the bathroom." This is pretty much true although I...

My son C is writing a letter to a player on the varsity basketball team via a pen pal program initiated by one of his teachers. His opening ...

C dismantled an old laptop a while back and S retrieved a rectangular piece of metal from the pile of scraps saying it was his cell phone. H...

You'd think I'd be happy, but really I resent it when the cashier tells me that there's a coupon as part of my sales slip. I fig...

When I suggested you give some of your Halloween candy to the bus driver, I didn't mean the Kit Kat bars. song: Give a Little Bit  • a...