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UPDATED: My Boobs Broke My Washer
Look; it’s been a rough season for appliances in our house. I don’t know if we’re doing appliances wrong, or if appliances aren’t built for 47HundredMillion people to use them ALL DAY LONG, or if I’m modeling Breakdown / I Quit / I HONEST TO GOD CANNOT DO ONE MORE THING behavior, or what; I just know this is the house where appliances come to die terrible, terrible deaths, and we can pray for them. … Continue Reading “UPDATED: My Boobs Broke My Washer”
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This Is Life, And I Quit. Also, I Un-Quit.
I’ve been burning the candle at both ends lately. Spitting into the wind. Taking one step forward and three steps back, minus the one step forward part.
I think that’s pretty much the same thing as being a mom, although I don’t think it’s we moms exclusively who fit those GOOD LORD I’M TIRED clichés. It’s just that… Good Lord, I’m TIRED, you know?
You know.
I know you know.
Two nights ago, I quit. … Continue Reading “This Is Life, And I Quit. Also, I Un-Quit.”
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10 Haikus About Motherhood
Here’s how I feel today: pfffttttttt.
So I wrote haikus.
I don’t know why those things go together, but they do.
Without further ado, here are:
10 Haikus About Motherhood
Got Out of Bed Late
Got out of bed late.
Big surprise. By which I mean,
No surprise at all.Spilled Coffee
Spilled coffee on my
shirt on my way to work this
morning. Normal day.My Kids Yell
My kids yell and yell
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In Retrospect…
In retrospect, taking 6 kids in 100+ degree weather in a non-air-conditioned vehicle for a 7 hour road trip isn’t the smartest thing I’ve ever done.
On the bright side, it’s also not the stupidest thing I’ve ever done, and we invented the most fabulous on-the-go, do-it-yourself, totally-Pinterest-worthy air conditioning system while we were at it. Our system is called ICE EVERYWHERE — ice every damn where — and it worked! It worked!