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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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