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Take my tomatoes- please!

28 Aug 2010 by Maniacal Mommy

It has been a wonderful year for tomatoes. Last summer they refused to ripen. This was probably for the best, since JD was only a few months old and canning them was not really a feasible option. My stash of home canned tomatoes had dwindled down to the point where I was almost panicking. No goulash? What if I really, really want goulash? You can’t make goulash with (gasp) store bought canned tomatoes!

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Category: Decorating, Gardening & Fix Ups, Humor, SAHM Tags: Is there a plan for this? One Comment

Bill Goldberg, Eat Your Heart Out…in October

17 Aug 2010 by Mom With A Pen

There’s something to be said about owning a house. For many years, due to my husband’s job, we lived in furnished apartments on college campuses. Some were nice and some were…er..not so nice. Drop-ceilings, walk-in showers (reminiscent of an 80′s gym locker room) and lack of closet and cabinets were like an HGTV reality show challenge. Every time we moved (which was about every two years), I thought Vern Yip was going to appear, cock his head to the side and say, “So, how are you going to make this space yours?”

Category: Cleaning & Cleanliness, Decorating & Fix-Ups, House & Home, SAHM, Self-Actualization Tags: Is there a plan for this?, Turning domestic goddess, Who am I tryin' to impress 4 Comments

Groundhog Day

08 Aug 2010 by Maniacal Mommy

We had a rough morning today. The baby, JD, was in to everything. This does not make it easy to cook breakfast, and I was doing it up right. Ok, no pancakes, but if there is fruit, meat, toast and eggs, there better not be any complaining.

Savor the Clean

04 Aug 2010 by Maniacal Mommy

It’s been a long few days in the Maniacal house. I have family in town, and we have been getting together for dinner.

As any parent with small children can tell you, leaving the house isn’t easy. You have to pack up everything you own to keep them entertained and/or safe. By the time you drag your exhausted and whiny brood home, all you want to do is drop it all and crawl into bed.

Men’s Work

29 Jul 2010 by Maniacal Mommy

My grandma warned me about men’s work. “You keep lifting/shoveling/digging like you do, and you will feel it when you are my age. That’s men’s work!” She’s probably right, but I am stubborn and impatient, so I end up getting myself into all sorts of mischief I really shouldn’t (there was incident with replacing the toilet seal, and then installing laminate flooring while in my first trimester).

Feeding Time at the Zoo!

24 Jul 2010 by Maniacal Mommy

I am in a rut. Sure, that covers a lot of territory when it comes to me. I never change my hair color, I tend to wear a lot of forest green and khaki/cream because I have no imagination when it comes to mix and match, and I am not fond of change in general. I only paint my toenails fire engine red and my hair has been worn in variations of a bob, and all of these things have been drug out for the past fifteen years.

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Category: Cooking & Baking, House & Home, Humor, SAHM One Comment

A Flurry of Madness

18 Jul 2010 by Maniacal Mommy

As mothers, we quickly learn that things are not going to go as we planned. Like those family dinners the experts keep touting that prevent delinquency and improve grades, the reality is drastically askew (someone is eating their spaghetti like a dog). Or that extremely misleading commercial showing the adoring mom and beaming children making rice cereal treats together. Seriously? In my world, the cereal ends up on the floor and I spend 20 minutes removing cement like marshmallow/cereal goo out of the pan. Meanwhile the kids are fighting over who gets the spatula to gnaw on and one is bitching that I didn’t put chocolate chips into them. The baby is hanging on my leg and crying and looks like we tried to batter him in crispies.

Summertime Blues (aka “Too Darn Hot”!)

22 Jun 2010 by Mom With A Pen

I am hot. Not in the “wah-wah-wah” *whistle whistle* kind of way, but in the “I’m going to bathe in a tub of ice cubes…those cute star-shaped ones in fact”…

Summer is my least favorite month. The kids are out of school and we send them to camp (essentially paying them to play), you have to mow a bizillion times and you can’t go outside without having to take a shower afterward. I think I took three showers the other day. Three Cold ones. Madison said, “Mommy, you are super clean today.” Sadly, after about an hour or so, I was not.

Category: Budgeting, Finances & Money, House & Home, Humor, SAHM, Soap Box Tags: Keeping my chin up, Technology makes me smile, This is how I roll One Comment

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Archive for the Category »House & Home «

Take my tomatoes- please!

Bill Goldberg, Eat Your Heart Out…in October

Groundhog Day

Savor the Clean

Men’s Work

Feeding Time at the Zoo!

A Flurry of Madness

Summertime Blues (aka “Too Darn Hot”!)

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