Everything can be healed, including bitchy mothers, nosy brothers, wounded teens, mediocre math grades, intrusive parents, with a simple hug and kiss. As I was tucking Devon into his crib tonight he hugged my neck, kissed both my cheeks and whispered into my neck, “I love you, Mai-Mai.”
All was good. All was forgiven. All was [...]

Sometimes motherhood leaves me so discombobulated. I so often believe that I am missing some sort of key maternal chip or instinct. I mean really, should it be so fucking hard? Or have I just made it that way? Surely it must be easier than this. I used to think it was hard but [...]

Today involved:
1. Hot yoga class for me. I really wanted to stay in bed and read smut but I have read all my smutty vampire and werewolf books that friends sent me for my birthday. So I hauled my ass to class and sweat my soul out for 90 minutes.
2. A slight return of some [...]

How do people survive the early years of childhood? I mean, seriously. What the fuck? It is so fucking hard. Every. Damn. Day. With their over sized craniums, stubby arms and impossibly soft cheeks, preschoolers are nothing but a race of evil, ne’er do wellers who are out to ruin any sort of sanity a [...]

Christ on a popscicle stick, if I am not in a wollowly trough, then I simply haven’t the foggiest idea where I could possibly be. I sure as fuck hope I am not slipping into a depression, though I think the symptoms are just too acute for that to be the case. I don’t have [...]

I’m burnt out. Worn out. Tired. In a wallow. Deep in a trough. I really have no reason to be other than that my kids suck the life out of me and the proceed to eat the marrow from my bones on a daily basis. Maybe something is off liter somewhere in my life.
I hope [...]

As I have mentioned from time to time, I am a full on techno tard. I have long been wanting to attached a video to a post here or at work but have been fully intimidated by the fearsome, judgmental Techno Gods who I imagine live somewhere in cyberspace. So the fact that there is [...]

September is a month of many birthdays and anniversaries for the people I know and love. Not only am I an angst ridden Virgo, but it seems I know many others who are as well. Some of my favorite people are born in the month of September. Caloden is also a Virgo. I started this [...]

Devon has been stalling in the mornings when it comes time for preschool. He has just started attending full days, 8:30 to 3:00, and finds this new schedule to be a bit of a crimp in his day. He does not care to nap on the mats as he is still a crib dweller. In [...]

I didn’t quite realize it at first but lately I have been doing a bit of a personnel inventory of the members who populate The Manor. It could be that after a summer of close dwelling I need to take stock and prepare for the winter, or perhaps I am just trying to understand them [...]