Toddler-Proofing Your Home In The New Millennium

My home looks like the typical baby-proofed home: guards on the electrical outlets, covers on the doorknobs, latches on the cupboards, and gates strategically set up to keep knee-high explorers safe. Which they don’t. All they do is make life… Read More

The Hazards of Working At Home

Moms that choose to run a home-based business are utterly out of their minds. I should know. I am one of those women.
Heres a list of things you can count on happening, so be prepared.
1) You’ll buy 12… Read More

Exercising With Toddlers

Ive been exercising to some of Richard Simmons’ exercise videos.
Let me tell you. I thought I had it all worked out. I’d wait until anyone old enough to laugh at me had gone to school or work for the… Read More

Good-bye Mattel And Company

Dear Mattel and Company,
Our Momma is going to give away all our toys. She means it. We don’t care a whit about all the cars, blocks, stuffed animals and battery operated noisemakers that we have. So Momma is giving… Read More

Telemarketers Save Moms Sanity

Why is it that when you want to talk on the phone, the kids show up in droves and make enough noise to drown out a marching band but when a telemarketer calls not one child can be found?
Ten… Read More

Antelopes in The Mail

It’s antelope season at my house again. Another child has reached the age where he can print and sound out some words so writing letters to Grammy and Auntie are high on his list. So are antelopes.
"Momma, I need… Read More

Love Is In The Air

My youngest son has fallen in love hard.  He is completely infatuated with one of his older sisters.  No doubt the treats she shares with him, the trips to the park, the piggy back rides and the stories she reads… Read More

I Dream Therefore I Am… An Insect

I dreamt I was a fruit fly.  A little white fruit fly flying among thousands of fruit flies.  I was looking for my husband.  But he had flown off because he was in the military service (of fruit flies, of… Read More

Give Me Peace And Quiet

A reader introduced me to a quote recently that completely expresses my point of view.  Raising children is like being pecked to death by a chicken.  Amen!
Little by little, day-by-day, they wear you down.  Momma, she’s touching me.  Momma,… Read More

Freedom is Not Much Fun

This week I did something I havent been able to do in eleven years. As the only parent in the house I took a shower. And I washed my hair. And I shaved my legs. All in just one shower!… Read More

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