There is something fantastic about shopping! It's akin to a discovery. No matter what you're buying. I remember on a family trip years ago to Europe, my father was overjoyed on seeing a large, ripe, pumpkin in a supermarket where we'd gone to buy (and become disappointed yet again) water. I guess the pumpkin reminded... Continue Reading →
Waterloo: Circa 2014
Ordinarily I am a card-carrying agnostic but today I am ready to drop to my knees and give thanks to the Galactic Amoeba if it means that MLM will conk off early and give me a wide berth before he does so. Today has been mind-numbingly exhausting and I have begun to think that I've... Continue Reading →
Rants’R’Us
After all the kicking, screaming, banging pots&pans (all my doing), the offspring falls asleep while on his 5th timeout of the day. There has to be a non-lunatic side to parenting. I've yet to discover it though 😦
We Are Home To Mr.NO & Mr. IT’s MINE!
Red and I have always tried to use positive words rather than negative words when communicating things to MLM. Kids are like sponges and like mirrors...they'll absorb everything and reflect them back on you...add boomerang to that list since they keep coming back no matter where you throw them. You *don't* throw your kids? Pity....try... Continue Reading →
You Just Can’t WIN!!
MLM and I have been engaging in lots of verbal skirmishes of late. I've been on the losing side I'm not ashamed to say. It's the truth. Anyone who has kids knows that they (the offspring) always win. Till they go off to college. Then we win. And keep winning because there is some role-reversal... Continue Reading →
Only Pains…Gains Are Faaar Behind!
We live on the 7th floor and there are perfectly good stairs leading to wherever you want to go in the building. *shudders* at the thought of trekking down all the way when there are perfectly good elevators in place too! But with gravity having more influence on the body day by day I decided... Continue Reading →