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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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.
Category: Cooking & Baking, Humor, Parenting
I started making my kids’ birthday cakes after the local bakery botched my child’s first cake. I had requested a tractor cake and placed the order at least a week beforehand. They called me the morning of the party to inform me that they did not have the adorable tractor accessories and what should they do?
Category: Cooking & Baking, Kids' Crafts & Homemade Items
Ah, birthdays. I know some people turn them into a three ring circus for their children. If that is the case for you, please don’t be offended by this. It just isn’t how I do things. It wasn’t how I was raised.
Category: Babies & infants, Cooking & Baking, Humor, Life's Lessons
My life is like that movie “Groundhog Day.” Yes, it feels like I am living the same day, over and over, until I finally get it right.
Obviously, I haven’t gotten it right yet!
Category: Cooking & Baking, Humor, Parenting
