The Mommy Rant

Halloween sugar crash. Sigh. Some holidays just make you wish you were a Jehovah's Witness. song: After Midnight • artist: Eric Cla...

Trolled the thrift shops for months looking for a double boiler before finding the perfect one. I know you can melt chocolate in the microwa...

I was all set to give out the fair trade dark chocolate minis that I bought at the church from the Fair Trade Committee. Did I mention that ...

Sometimes I think that all I do all day is drive my kids around - and eat chocolate. Which, I suppose, isn't all that bad. song: Ruby...

I've been deleting e-mails from "Native Exotics," assuming that it was some Native American mail order bride company - or wors...

At the Trick or Treat on Main Street event this afternoon the twins kept choosing the worst candy! Not the Twizzlers! Get some Kit Kats! N...

Davy Crockett, Johnny Appleseed, a cowboy, and a jester - those are this year's costume choices at our house. When I was a kid you had...

Why is there a box for gender on the Cub Scout Registration Form? song: I'm a Boy • artist: The Who

When your son wants to walk the long way back to the car even through it's drizzling, because there's a chance you might see wild tu...

When my kids think of children who are less fortunate then themselves, they'll likely think of kids who come to Storyland in...

My black, cast-iron fry pan never gets dirty either. song: Black Socks • artist: Bill Harley

Note to Bill Harley: Black dresses never get dirty either. song: Black Socks • artist: Bill Harley

having squashed pennies and tiny plastic swords in your wallet.

Atlantis. The first landmass to fall victim to global climate change. I felt a little high in the car just listening to this song. song...

S and N are identical twins but S says he likes chocolate and N says he doesn't. So I'm pretty sure one of them is lying. song: L...

Where are the t-shirts that read, "A Goat Ate My Bookmark at the Fryeburg Fair?" Because I'm sure S isn't the only one tha...

Friday I broke open the box of chocolates my friend Christine brought me from the Czech Republic this summer in order to counter the effects...

We've been playing a lot of Clue at our house. So much so that today while driving I swear I saw a cloud that looked like the wrench. ...

How bleak things must be in Afghanistan if visiting the Cape Cod Mall was enough to make three Afghan soldiers want to defect. The Cape Cod...

If I had a $1 for every time I whispered "shut the f*ck up," under my breath to my kids I'd be able to put the little f*ckers ...