The Mommy Rant

Tonight I told one of the boys that if he couldn't eat his dinner, could he at least artfully arrange it on his plate? No sense wasting...

I don't get it. He had no gift to give? He had a drum. song: Little Drummer Boy • composer: Katherine Kennicott Davis

You know you've raised proper Unitarian Universalist children when you take them to "trim the church" morning at the fellowshi...

So what exactly is the moral of the story of the gingerbread man? That you'll be eaten by a fox if you run away from home? Sort of a h...

Oh no! The twins have discovered the Alvin and the Chipmunk's Christmas song! song: The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late) • ...

I keep wanting to run, Pavlovian-like to the phone, every time they play the Christmas Elves forgetting that we're - yes! Already qualif...

It shouldn't be Thanksgiving until all the Halloween candy's been eaten and it shouldn't be Christmas until all the left over tu...

Every time I see your face, it reminds me of the places we used to go. But all I've got is a photograph, and I realize you're not...

I think we can all agree that over weight guys with white beards and nicotine habits should not don Santa hats. My kid (pointing out the ca...

Despite having spent almost $40 on advent calendars I am still being asked the question children have pestered parents with since red-velvet...

The only item on my bucket list is winning the WMVY Holiday Stocking. song: All I Want is You • artist: U2

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...