I love my kids art.  I find their work endlessly fascinating and humorous.  Now  usually it’s just standard heroics and monster fare, but last night Zeke raised the bar.  Behold, the “Happy Zebra, pooping”:

He presented it with little fanfare. Just a “Hey Mom, I made a Zebra at Inside Play today. Yeah, it’s pooping.”  If [...]

I have a guilty little indulgence, that borders on weirdness.  Guess what? I am going to share it with the world, because I believe in sharing oddness.  Here it is…I watch the television show What Not To Wear with pure joy, after the kids go to sleep.  Not weird, you declare? How about adding this tidbit [...]

Tuesday I was checking out at the pharmacy when I overheard an elderly woman say “I wish I could find someone to show me how to use a Redbox.”  No sooner had the words left her mouth, my ears were tingling.  Help her.
I readily confess that my first thought was “I do not have time for this [...]

(This, I promise, is my first and last Halloween post.) 
With all the talk around about Haunted Houses and truly scary Halloween fare, I have decided that these things are child’s play. Anyone can create an area full of pseudo blood and gore.  Chills and thrills that induce screams, then giggles.  People dressed as psychotic dentists and slutty [...]

This morning I read Brian The Blog Prophet’s post requesting suggestions on how to make spiritual applications/illustrations from Zombie movies.  This by the way, is just one of the reasons that I read his blog.  He thinks outside the box, and I love those kinds of thinkers.
His question sent me down the path I am going [...]

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Yesterday my six and four year old sons were arguing. About what, who could say? It could have been whether the letter on an M&M is a M or W. I suspect the disagreement wasn’t even that logical given their past history.  I was honestly just trying to tune them out. Suddenly the conversation deteriorated  into the classic sibling quid pro [...]

I have been a mother a short amount of time, considering how much longer I intend to be on the job.  Over the course of the last eleven years I have said the following:
Do not put your penis anywhere OR on any thing. Keep it in your pants.
Let’s not pick our noses.  Let’s not pick our brother’s [...]