Parenting
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This is a little ditty I created while on a work trip away from the fam. Sometimes it rhymes and sometimes it doesn’t. Whatever! I’ll miss you I’ll miss you when I’m at work I’ll miss you on the plane I’ll be thinking of you on my conference call with big haired Elaine I’ll miss…
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Every Mom has one. A time of the year when literally everyone’s birthday happens all at once. Three kids born in February and a parent in March. Two kids born in June, a brother and also a Grandparent in June. When you reach the end of the month you say to friends, “I never want…
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“I have no clean underwear” said my husband as I was unpacking from my business trip. I was half paying attention. “What?” I asked. “I have no clean underwear.” He said again. I’m still not getting it. Then it hit me, oh my god, HE WAS WAITING FOR ME TO WASH HIS UNDIES. But I…
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Kind of like you’re at the spa. But not really. White waffle robes. Payment of $250 or more. Stretchy plastic coil key ring with a key to a blonde wooden locker where you place your clothes. These are about the only things that are the same in this situation except maybe for the nakedness on…
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I always thought this would be a great book title. This is a phrase I think to myself every time I get on the scale and especially as the years go by, I think to myself wow, I’ve never weighed this much! I’m fatter than I’ve ever been! It seems depressing but sometimes you just…
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It happened again. I tucked everyone in, pushed the laundry, did the dishes, washed my face and sat down to play Wordle and check Tik Tok. Bam, suddenly it’s midnight. But I didn’t reframe that shadow box with the concert tickets and photos from last summer, I still wanted to wrap my brothers birthday gift…
Always the Last to Bed 