The Mommy Rant

I asked H why he was wearing his shorts to bed under his fleece pajama bottoms and he told me that he hadn't had any bad dreams since he...

People have been posting on FB about where they were and what they were doing 30 years ago today when the space shuttle exploded. I can t...

Love Stinks   (J. Giles) Love Hurts   (Nazareth) Love Bites   (Def Leppard) Ouch. song: I'll Never Fall in Love Again • artist: Dio...

When I was a kid things were simpler. We had one jar. Skippy Peanut Butter. Now we have the good peanut butter (cookies) and the cheap pea...

Leif Erikson sailed 1,000 miles from Greenland to North America in order to bring back timber to his tree-sparse homeland. It was a three-ye...

Seed catalogues in the mail today! Gardner porn! song: Let it Grow • artist: Eric Clapton

The family that watches the New Year's Twilight Zone Marathon together, gets freaked out by the ventriloquist and his creepy dummy episo...

Creepiest holiday song title ever. song: Santa Will Find You • artist: Mindy Smith

Woah. Christmas Day is almost over? Kinda slept in this morning. I was up late kissing Santa Claus last night. Damn mistletoe. Hope no o...

Christmas Songs for 2016 1. I saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus 2. I Wanna Adopt an Endangered Hippopotamus for Christmas 3. We Three Democra...

Sixty five degrees on Cape Cod on December 24? Guess I'll be wearing my sun dress to midnight mass. song: Baby It's (Not) Cold Ou...

Speed wrapping. Is that an Olympic sport? song: Christmas Wrapping • artist: The Waitresses

I just gave $2 to the Salvation Army guy outside Stop and Shop.  I think he told me he loved me and that I should try not to drink and dri...

Someday my grandchildren will ask my children (probably for an elementary-school project) what were some of the holiday traditions they had ...

One great thing about having kids is that you can rummage around in the back of your mini van and usually come up with some snacks. Mini Re...

N told me that some of his friends have elf on the shelves that "do funny things." Great. Now there's elf on the shelf peer p...

The domestic version of flying to close to the sun must be vacuuming to close to the socks. song: Gonna Fly Now (Rocky's theme) • arti...

So much of Christmas is about figuring out what your kids need and then making them wait until December 25 to get it. #newshoesockssweathsh...

Dropping off the the jack-o-lanterns at Compost With Me feels weirdly like disposing of a body. If, that is, I knew what disposing of a body...

Can I gain a daylight savings hour every night? song: Time is on my Side • artist: The Rolling Stones