The Year of My Socks, Two-Thousand and Eighteen
Okay, yes, I know. I basically disappeared there for, well, pretty much all of January. We'll talk about that tomorrow. Today I'm just talking about my girl. My daughter wrote and submitted a piece in the Critical Essay category of this year's Scholastic Art and Writing competition. Spoiler alert: her essay won a Scholastic Gold … Continue reading Back Just In Time To Brag
It seems as if every time I turn around, there’s another new way to dot the I’s, cross the t’s, and close the book on summer. It’s over at the Fall Equinox! No, dummy, it’s over at Labor Day! Screw you guys, it’s over when the distributors ship us pumpkin beers! I don’t know what … Continue reading What I Did On My Summer Hiatus
It's pretty much inevitable that sooner or later, no matter how well-intentioned the parents, there will come a day when <stay-at-home/work-from-home> parent will have that "Just sit there quietly and wait until <office-work-parent> gets home!" moment. Unfortunately, Monday was that day at la casa de Puddin. The two older boys, Puddinpop and Mini-Me, got into … Continue reading The Joy of Childhood Crimes and Punishments
The past few days, I feel like I've been constantly try to catch up to that "normal" spot in the schedule of life. Too many plates in the air, all perilously close to hitting the ground in an impressive symphony of shattered ceramic, and I'm only just barely grabbing them and chucking them back up … Continue reading When Life gets all, “WHAT?”, give it 10 Reasons
It's amazing the difference you see in putting one's three children to bed on Christmas Eve and then 24 hours later on Christmas night. Last night I nearly had to resort to bribery for them to calm down and go to sleep so that Santa could do his important works. Tonight, after a full day … Continue reading God Bless Us, Every One
