Death comes for my family

Last night my phone rang at 10:15. Now even before I had a baby this was an unacceptable time to call me. I have to be up insanely early because school starts before 8 and I live a good 45 minutes away. Plus I always need time to get myself ready for the day. 10:15 [...]

A day of minor annoyances

Today started off ok. The baby actually slept the entire way to the sitter’s. I left for work a few minutes earlier than normal, got into a nice traffic flow and made it to work nearly 10 minutes faster than usual. All signs pointed to a great Monday.
I should have known there is no such [...]

Words

I’m really sleepy and have a nasty headache, so tonight I’m phoning it in and you are getting another story from my someday to be book.
Words
 
It’s amazing to me how a simple phrase can still send shivers down my spine, even after 8 years. I’m sure that after all this time you have forgotten your [...]

I’ve got nothing on Pavlov’s dog

While Eee and I were at the mall last weekend I gave into temptation. It started out in a harmless enough manner. It was really hot outside. We were both severely parched and figured since we’d both only had tiny pieces of toast for breakfast, we could splurge and get a smoothie at Frulatti. Actually [...]

If I keep it up I could be the next Donna Reed

Last night during a lull in the rather spectacular thunderstorm, my husband had to grab a ladder, run out and clean our gutters. As I was putting clean clothes away, I noticed the rain pounding on the window in our bedroom was much louder than the rain anywhere else in our house. I’m not master of physics [...]

More car repair nightmares

As unbelievable as it sounds, my car is broken again. It seems like only yesterday that I was stuck at the repair shop for hours and had to shell out nearly $500 to restore the ability to roll my back window up. While the date may be an exaggeration (it was actually one month ago [...]

On being a working mom

I’ve survived my first full week as a working mom. It wasn’t easy. I’d left my son at the babysitters a couple of times this summer when I had to go in to work for partial days, but I never got there before 9 am and never picked him up later than 3 pm until [...]

Deep fried Pepsi, oh my!

It’s that time of the year again. School starts, temperatures rise to the upper 90’s, the grass is turning a dirty brown and I am once again compelled to eat my body weight in fried foods. Yes, the state fair is back and tonight I got to partake in a feeding frenzy that has left [...]

The daily grind grinds me down

Today marked the official end of my maternity leave. I have to say this whole work thing is harder than I remember. Why do people do this? Oh yeah, that’s right, it’s the only way to continue living the fabulously luxurious lifestyle I have grown so accustomed to. Of course, for me that means eating [...]

The end of summer vacation

Today is my last day of freedom…sigh. I know that some might argue that since I don’t actually go back to work until Monday that Sunday will be my last carefree day of summer, but the way I look at it, even during the school year I don’t have to go in to work on [...]