Category Archives: Motherhood

Even if You Don’t have Time to be Awesome You can Still Make this Easy Heart Shaped Cake for Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day totally got away from me this year. Last year I was all Super Pinterest Mom, and David took these cool homemade Valentines to school. But I can’t be awesome all the time. Just today I finally went to the store and bought Valentine’s. David’s taking Angry Bird cards to school on Thursday. Birds trying to kill pigsContinue Reading

I Wonder if Jesus Would Like a Side of Hash Browns with That?

Wade and Jesus are tight. I mean, like, serious BFFs. Their relationship is more than just a bedtime prayer kind of thing. Most of the time when Wade talks about Jesus he calls Him Baby Lord Jesus. Not just Jesus. Not just Lord. No. That’s Baby Lord Jesus to you, thank you very much. It startedContinue Reading

Things Only a Parent Would Say Featured Reader – What’s Up Doc?

This week’s hilarious parental saying comes from Sarah. I laughed out loud when I read it. This is all the more funny to me, because I know Sarah and her boys personally. It’s never dull when you have little boys in the house! Want your own saying featured? Here’s how: Head over to the Things Only a ParentContinue Reading

Escape from Planet Earth $25 Visa Gift Card and Prize Pack Giveaway

We’re on our third snow day in seven days, and today it’s too nasty to even go outside and play. The kids are bouncing off the walls, and I’m going crazy. Today is the perfect kind of day to escape to the movie theater to take in a family friendly movie like Escape from PlanetContinue Reading

Perpetual Mom Motion

The alarm blares, startling me awake from my dream about palm trees swaying to the rhythm of warm ocean breezes. 6:30 a.m. I force my legs to swing out from under the cocoon of soft blankets. The shock of the chilly floor on my bare feet jolts the sleep from my eyes. I wrap my bathrobe aroundContinue Reading

Things Only A Parent Would Say Featured Reader: S.W.A.K

This week’s Things Only A Parent Would Say featured reader is Gale from Scribbleprints: Well, at least the kids weren’t licking the computer, right? Want your own saying featured? Here’s how: Head over to the Things Only a Parent Would Say page. Use the form to enter your own funny parental saying. Leave a link to yourContinue Reading

Will Somebody Please Tell Me How to Potty Train My Kid?

Wade told me next Halloween he’s going as, “Naked Boy!” Then he wiggled his bare bottom at me as he said, “Trick-or-treat!” I guess that will make costume shopping easy come next October. Wade regularly wakes up in the morning wearing only his night-time training pants, his pajamas discarded at the foot of the bed.Continue Reading