Posted in Family, General Rants on Feb 4th, 2007
How does someone tell someone else that their loved one has passed on? “Um, sorry to tell ya but your Granny just kicked the bucket.” “Hate to be the one to tell you, but…..” ect. Unfortunately this subject is something my family has had to address more than once. More than [...]
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Posted in Family, Health on Jan 29th, 2007
Wanda Sikes has a great bit in one of her comedy acts about parents with kids. She reveals how parents with kids lie to parents considering having kids so as to pull them into their shared misery. “Sure it can be work, but it’s WORTH it!“ It is all in good humor, and I admit [...]
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Posted in Family, Holidays on Dec 20th, 2006
I recently read another blog that had some excellent writing on their personal experiences with kids getting completely spoiled by their parents on Christmas and other holidays. Unfortunately the blog used a fair amount of cursing to get their point across, so I don’t feel all that inclined to link to it from this blog. [...]
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Posted in Family on Nov 20th, 2006
Okay…it has happened…I turned into my mother.
But worst than that somehow during my sleep I was picked up by an alien space ship and dropped on some unknown planet where the residents look like my teenage daughter. This creature has her face, voice and blond hair but the similarities stop there. I was [...]
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Posted in Family on Nov 17th, 2006
We women hold the power of the world in our dish washing pan hands. I came to this conclusion from years of marriage and motherhood. My family would spend their days searching for all their belongings, walking around lost in their dirty underwear if not for me. Not one dentist appointment would [...]
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