I think family friends are the toughest type of friends to make. Yes, more difficult even than mom friends or the dreaded couple friends (more on those folks later). I’m not talking about casual acquaintances that you invite to wedding receptions and send holiday cards to, I mean real family friends, another family that you… Read More Family Friends: The Most Challenging Type of Friends
I literally whisper yelled the sentence “STOP trying to squeeze off your sister’s head!” during church today. More specifically I whisper yelled this during the closing prayer, just an FYI things are pretty quiet during prayers. Today was another amazing church day, I thought that with time AsthmaMan’s church behavior would improve… no, I thought… Read More “Stop Trying to Squeeze Off Your Sister’s Head!”: The Spreadsheets Do Church Part II
Harry Potter was with me as I got ready for church this morning. For some reason church makes me super self conscious, every week I go into my closet and draw the conclusion that all my clothes are ugly. I know it makes no sense, no one cares, no one notices, logically I understand this,… Read More “Does this dress make me look chubby?”
Since there is no school tomorrow I thought this was the perfect opportunity to introduce my kids to “spooks in the dark”, the terrifying and amazing game from my childhood. When I suggested this to Mr. Spreadsheets he looked at me like I was crazy.
I have a really hard time sitting down and watching TV. Actually I have a really hard time sitting down. I like every activity to have an end goal or accomplishment- writing on this blog has become my latest leisure activity because no matter how poorly written, in the end I have something to show… Read More Television as Radio
I think I could handle dinner better if it was an every other day sort of thing. Like if we ate on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday, and on the other days I just handed them a granola bar.… Read More How can I “win” at dinner?
Mom friends are your fellow battleworn warriors ready to lift you up, cheer you on, and drag you to safety when necessary. … Read More Must Haves in a Good “Mom” Friend
I am a terrible decision maker. Mr. Spreadsheets will tell you, I am the worst. I make the decision like 40 times. I always second guess my decision, I ask everyone, I research it, and I stress about it to no end. And they’re often just stupid decisions like, what type of bread should we… Read More Best Decision
My oldest child goes to a charter school that gives out grades to kindergartners (which is idiotic). He comes home from school with graded spelling tests! They don’t have happy faces or gold stars, they have percentages. I kinda thought kindergarten was the place where you acclimate to school and learn to use glitter and… Read More How High Should the Bar Be?
Cultivating Chaos 