Another Mother’s Day has come and gone, and I gotta hand it to Paul. He knocked it out of the park. I woke up super late because he kept the boys quiet at the other end of the house, was treated to a yummy homemade breakfast, two great cards from him and the boys, a gift card to a local sports store so I can buy new running shoes, and then I spent the afternoon...

I got into a pretty heated debate today on Facebook. (WOW, that sounds really lame when admitted out loud.) A friend of mine, Aaron from The Daddy Files, posted a link about parental stress or something equally pointless by the Today Show, and in the article, it stated that “46% of women say their husbands stress them out more than their children.” Aaron...

I want to make something abundantly clear. I love my children. I ADORE my children. I would rip out my kidneys and my lungs and my heart and even never wear mascara again for my kids. I think they are cute and smart and wonderful and I love being a mom. Now, brass tacks. 41/2 a SHITTY age. I do not love it. No, sir, I do not. Declan is an easy child, overall, and I...

I am sitting here on a Saturday afternoon taking a coffee/blog break while Simon naps. Paul is mowing, and Declan, being the social butterfly that he is, ran across the street to see if the neighbor kids that live there want to play. SCORE. Until Declan brings his friend back to the house. I have no problem with his friends being over, and we are lucky to live on a...

A lot of people like to say that in order to be a parent, you should have to take a class or be licensed. This is usually after seeing some idiot parent giving their kid Dr. Thunder in their baby bottle or after a marathon of Toddlers & Tiaras. But seriously, even us parents who aren’t poisoning their child or dressing them like Dolly Parton need extra...

Without going into detail just yet, it does look like I’ll be returning to the work force after all, in some way shape or form. It’s not a full time gig, more likely freelance with some occasional time in the office, but still, it’s a REAL JOB with REAL ADULTS and I haven’t done that in almost four years. Yikes. There are a lot of things...