Posts belonging to Category Life

A reading from the Mommy’s New Testament, Book of the Tween

(with props to The Mommy’s Old Testament) And the child cried out to her Mommy from the sanctuary of her room, saying “Thou art mean, and it is not fair.” And the Mommy replied, “Roll not thine eyes nor heave sighs unto Heaven. Dost thou not know that all good things which come to thee, [...]

Happy Mother's Day, Esp. to the Single Moms

I’ve spent the day with a hellacious cold – I’d be thinking flu if I weren’t prone to the allergy-cold-bronchitis triple whammy I get so often – AND I have a horrible case of pink eye.  My right eye is nearly swollen shut, and I look like a mutant.  It’s scary looking. So the Hub [...]

Monster No. 2

Just because. Is he cute, or what?

Diva Drama

Tomboy Diva sprained her ankle at martial arts last night.    I wasn’t there.  The Daddy carried her into the house, and while she’d obviously been crying, she was pretty calm.  Then he got out a big pot of water and ice and made her put her foot in it, and we went through thirty to [...]

Um, okay…I bought it

http://doodlebra.com/swatches.html. Although, if I were blogging under my own name, I might not be so eager to tell everybody.

Good grief. They've tarted up Dora the Explorer.

She’s getting a fashionable new look.    Creators claim she’s just aging along with her fans.  Whatever.  The silhouette looks like a Bratz doll – which, by the way, are no longer available because Mattel finally prevailed in its copyright suit; a judge in December ordered MGA to cease production of Bratz.  So now there’s a [...]

Forgot to spring forward

Tomboy Diva was not happy to miss Sunday school.  It’s been at least ten years since I did this; I remember thinking last night to do all the clocks before we went to bed, but I didn’t do it.   Because I’m old, and I can’t remember anything.

Hello out there.

Welcome to my brand new blog, which I’ve not yet really figured out how to drive. I guess I need to settle on a theme, and a background, and pictures.  Stuff.   And posts.  I need to do posts. I wish I could call them something besides posts.  Posting sounds like you’re saying something with a [...]