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Happy Birthday To Me.

Today is my birthday. Birthday’s are different once you get older, get married, and become a parent. I have two loads of laundry waiting for me. I have to pack for our holiday trip, and the floor desperately needs a good mopping.  Not to mention,  Bam Bam just dumped the dog’s water bowl out onto [...]

The Show Must Go On.

Today’s post is a guest post at The Chronicles of Sharnia. Sharni Montgomery is a slightly crazy (in the best ways) Aussie Mum, who invited me to be a guest blogger on her burgeoning site. I live in Los Angeles, she lives in a town with one horse- it’s like kismet. Knowing my background as [...]

The Smoke Detector That Broke The Camel’s Back.

There is only so much a person can take. Human beings (yes, mommies too) are fragile, as much as we don’t like to admit it.  We disregard this fact. We push it deep down and pretend to be super heroes. We call it “necessity”, because after all, someone needs to take care of the house, [...]

Longest weekend ever. aka- If the Swine Flu were a person, I would stab him in the eye.

I guess I must be Super Woman. Who knew? The longest weekend ever began on Thursday. Bam Bam had been sick all week, but I had managed to keep pretty healthy… until Thursday morning. I woke up with a splitting headache, sore throat, and some sort of strange, unproductive hack. I chose to ignore the [...]

May the fires end soon.

Okay, this is a post that I wrote four years ago on an old Blogger site. I only posted for a few months, but it was a transitional time for me. I was in a very dark place, and rarely found joy or beauty in the world around me. I thought it was poignant that [...]