Traveling Part Duex + A Mega Douche
Share the lies: Ahhhhh……we are on vacation this week. Glorious, sunny Florida visiting Nick’s parents. We made the same trip last year as well, and I am totally jinxing our return trip by putting this in writing, but something magical happened during transit between our house in the burbs of Chicago and the arrival to [...]
If I had a Nickel….
Share the lies: Listen up kids here’s the deal, you guys do things that are pretty repetitious and super annoying. To drive home just how repetitious and annoying, I’ve made a list just to let you know how much money we would have if I had a nickel for every time you did one of [...]
Tiny Socks
Share the lies: It happens at least once a week, someone asks either Nick, me or both of us if we are having more kids. When the children are being good and acting cute the tone is usually one of “Awww…..they make cute babies, I should ask them if they are having more!” When the [...]
Get Your Barf Bags Out
Share the lies: I’m about to say nice & lovey things about my husband. This week’s writing challenge is to talk about a love story that makes me happy, and the one that I know the best is of course, my own. You’ve been warned. Nick’s parents got engaged after two weeks, and they have [...]
The Scavenger Hunt
Share the lies: Everyone! I need your help! I know it’s the Monday after a holiday, and I understand that you may feel as though you are not firing on all cylinders, but please I need you. All of you. At the moment everything is fine, but if no one intervenes, it’s going to get [...]
You Can’t Go Back….But Sometimes You Can Visit.
Share the lies: You never know when a seemingly mundane event might become life changing. So when I pushed through the door at 910 W. Buena on an oppressively hot summer day in 1997, I had no idea that a dingy little bar was going to have so much meaning for my future. At the [...]
I Hate You Daylight Savings Time
Share the lies: You know when you just know a day is going to suck before it happens, and you do your best to steel yourself for it? There are planned suck fests, like when you have a 6 a.m. flight. The night before the flight, you think “What asshole made this reservation?” Then you [...]
Who Will Be The Next To Succumb to the Evil?
Share the lies: It’s happened. Our luck has run out. The little one has fallen to the evils of the stomach flu. Like all mommies, I hate it when my monkeys are sick. It’s so sad, and it makes you feel so helpless. But when it’s the stomach flu, you know it’s not over with [...]
For My Valentine
Share the lies: Roses are Red. Violets are Blue. If you really love me, You’ll take the children with you. I don’t need perfume, Fancy jewelry, candy, Or even a new car. I just want the children To be where ever you are. It’s not that I don’t love you all dearly. I do very [...]
Why The Internet Was Really Invented
Share the lies: I was born during a time before the mighty interweb was invented. I grew up during a time when the rotary telephone was attached to the wall with a long stretched out cord, you had to get off the couch to turn the dial on the TV if you wanted a new [...]
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