Every Tuesday I’ll share something funny with the hope it will make you laugh and smile. Maybe you’ll nod your head and say “yeah, me too.” When school starts, we’re always super enthusiastic, right? We take the time to make our kid’s lunches just so. We carefully chose school outfits and sigh when our little…
Stop Asking Me When I’m Going to Have a Baby I am your average, career-oriented millennial. I am an English teacher in the town where I grew up and I am married to my junior high sweetheart (we met at the art table when we were twelve.) I have too many cats and a mastiff named Henry….
Last night’s terrible, horrible, no-good very bad night turned into a terrible, horrible, no-good very bad morning. We had storms here last night beyond the usual late spring thunder showers we’re used to. I was lying in bed at 11:45 listening to my husband peacefully snore (jerk) and thinking a cyclone was going to lift…
No one gets excited about Tuesday. Sure, you made it through Monday but Friday still seems like a long way off. Because it is. Every Tuesday I’ll share something funny with the hope it will make you laugh and smile. Maybe you’ll nod your head and say “yeah, me too.” This meme is one of…
I’m a mommy blogger and I effing like it I told my friends Kristi and Meredith that I had better things to do that to write this post. Turns out it’s a little bit of a slow day in the Robbins household. The rain is giving me the perfect excuse to postpone my trip to…
Summer vacation begins in 23 days. The last day of school is circled on our family calendar in blood red. My kitchen table is littered with flyers for karate camp, art camp, tumbling camp, swim lessons and vacation Bible school. I have another dozen websites bookmarked so I can research all of my options for…
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser, Walmart Family Mobile. All opinions are mine alone. #DataAndAMovie #FishAndFlicks #CollectiveBias There’s some children’s programming I just can’t stand: Dora, Calliou, Bubble Guppies. Okay, maybe Bubble Guppies isn’t that bad but the theme song sticks in my head and plays in a loop…
I will be fifty this year. I go back and forth between “I am rocking this next phase of my life” and “pass the brownies, I’m so stinkin’ old.” I remember being 25 and moaning because I was “a quarter of a century old.” Yes, I want to slap 25-year-old me upside the head. And…
My son is one of the bravest people I know. That seems like a weird thing to say about a 5-year old, but it’s true. My husband and I adopted him from China when he was three. In one afternoon, his life was completely turned upside down and sidways… and so was mine. He woke…
Mother’s Day meltdowns just plain suck. I’m not talking about kid meltdowns, either. I’m talking about you, mama. Mother’s Day is our day, our time. We approach this day with visions of brunch, epic presents and relaxation. And when I say relaxation, I mean drinking your coffee while it’s still sort of hot, peeing without a cheering…