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The Great Graffiti Gaffe
We’re a few weeks into summer now, & our backyard trampoline has been getting a lot of action. It goes without saying that if you get your kids a trampoline, you’re getting one for the entire neighborhood. Somehow your entire neighborhood ends up in it. Now granted, trampolines carry the potential for bodily harm: But they can have an even more serious consequence, thanks to Pinterest. Pinterest is the reason we can’t have nice things, like self-esteem. Because just when you think you’re doing ok, along comes Pinterest to bombard you with thousands of ways that people are being far more creative & parenting far better than YOU. So thanks,…
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Concert Chaos Created My Latest #ParentFail
Happy June, y’all! I’m glad May is over, because it’s always the absolute craziest month when it comes to the end-of-school-year chaos. For some reason, May is when everything school-related is crammed into the span of a few weeks. It’s a constant overload of projects, class parties, permission slips to sign, etc. When your kids bring home tons of school reminders but it’s May & you’re already over it. pic.twitter.com/OnjCslxjTh — Stephanie Ortiz (@Six_Pack_Mom) May 10, 2018 Juggling all of this minutiae isn’t easy, and I try hard to prevent things from falling between the cracks. But we all have a #momfail now & then, no matter how hard we…
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Family “Fun” Day… At Ikea?
We recently had a shift here. For years now, The Captain has worked Saturdays. The kids have long been used to him not being home, so doing things “as a family” were typically squeezed into a few hours on Sunday- if at all. He’s no longer working on Saturdays, so we’re trying to figure out what that looks like as a family. What do… “normal” families do on your typical rainy Saturday afternoon? They go to Ikea, apparently- because everyone was there. EVERYONE. We had decided to pick up some new plates & cups now that the kids are older (We’re all high-society now; no more drinking out of coffee…
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The Dino-Mite Gift Of Laughter
#3’s 13th birthday has come & gone, which now brings our house’s teenage total to THREE. We have some limited experience with teenagers because 3’s older sisters are now 16 and 15, but since 3 is also our oldest boy, this is a fairly new road for us. This year has already brought about changes that seemingly appeared overnight. #3 transformed from a gangly stick of a boy whose voice I’d mistake for his sister’s on the phone to a MAN. Seriously- puberty, y’all. The voice deepened, the daily showers, the newfound love for wrestling and all things warrior-like, and the hesitation in my husband’s step when #3 wanted to…
