Analyzing the joys and funny bits of parenting and the domestic life
The Giant Monster Birthday that we had planned for my son’s fifth birthday finally happened a couple weekends ago. Did we survive the party surrounded by sixteen hopped-up kids? Of course we did, but I had to resort to creating a comic to tell you about it. What’s with the comic? I had so much [...]
My son turned five the other day. He turned five in the blink of an eye. A moment that zoomed toward me faster than I could have ever imagined and passed us just as quickly. He is no longer only five. He is five years and seven days old, and before I can blink again [...]
The Oil of Oregano worked for a week. And then it didn’t. I’m sick. Yes, again. I think moving forward we should just assume that at all points for the rest of the fall and winter, I will be overcome by some virus or another and spewing evil little germs from my nose and mouth. [...]
We are chronically late. To everything, everywhere, every day. That’s just the way it is around here. However, the biggest late issue is the one that we face every morning. School. We have made it to the school before first bell possibly two or three times this year. We usually arrive at the door of my [...]
My brother and I were never like that. I look up at the woman who spoke and she nods her head toward the sight of my children hugging each other so tightly that one of them inevitably loses their footing, and falls to the ground pulling the other on top of them. This happens a [...]
