• It's Mother's Day - happy
    Marital Hiss

    It’s Mother’s Day…Happy?!

    I should have been elated for my special day. It was not the case. I think I am the only one aware in my household *that and my 5 year old* that this weekend was Mother’s Day. He brought me home a plant that he seeded himself in class and a card cut out to form the word MOM with his photo on the front. This was a work of pure genius. My other son brought me a golden dragon (for the Chinese Year of the Dragon that he and I share) that he crafted with his hands out of clay. It was wondrous and I quickly hid it from…

  • My So Called Life

    Walking snooze buttons

    I love my children. They are bright exuberant bundles of happiness.  They also have this crazy habit of coming into my bedroom on the weekends at five minute intervals to wake me up. Ask me for cereal (which they know they can get themselves), ask me if they can play their educational Toy Story computer game (if its educational, unless they are grounded, its a green light) and can I tell their older brother to leave them alone and stop bothering them while they play said computer game. They are walking snooze buttons. Is it too much to ask that I not wake up before 8AM on a Sunday? Pretty…