It all happened in the space of maybe three minutes, a perfect storm of comedy that left me laughing harder than I have in a while. It was time to pick up my girls from school, so I hurriedly replaced my 2yo’s carseat in the van, tossed him in the car, and off we went. [...]

As I look forward to next month’s 2nd Type A Mom Conference, I realize how much has changed for me since I attended last year.  I have definitely matured, both as a person and a blogger.  I have different hopes and more realistic expectations from this year’s conference, and I’m more comfortable than ever in [...]

This is our son, Eli (almost 3), enjoying himself in our backyard on a very hot day this week. The pay-off is at the end – it’s a pretty good chuckle! (sorry about the poor video quality – it’s the software I used to process it.  need to find something better!) Tweet This Post

(for more Top Ten Tuesday posts, visit ohamanda.com) I have never owned an iAnything, so when I won an iTouch at the BlogHer’10 Conference, I was excited, but still among the unconverted.  Honestly, I even left the thing in its box until I got home.  But once the seal was broken…oh…I was in deep.  The [...]

Last weekend several Latter-day Saint congregations in our area were blessed to hear from David A Bednar, a General Authority in our church, and someone we sustain as an Apostle, someone who we believe receives direct revelation from God. While I know that not all my readers are religious – least of all Mormon – he [...]

Nanny McPhee Returns is the second film adapted by Emma Thompson from the Nurse Matilda books.  Though it opens today in theatres throughout US and Canada, my sons and I were able to attend an advanced screening last night, compliments of Universal Pictures. The setting is many years after the first Nanny McPhee movie, though [...]

Back to School season is really more of a marathon than a sprint.  Even if school has already started for you, chances are you’re still collecting items from the teacher’s wish-list, or tracking down supplies you couldn’t find on your first (or second, or third) time out. I’ve always thought the STAPLES: that was easy [...]

It may be a bit melodramatic to say social media has ruined me as a reader, but it sure has affected me. For one thing, I find I have less patience to sit and read a text of any length.  I’ve become accustomed to 140 characters – or 440 if I’m on Facebook – or [...]

A common question I heard asked among the attendees at BlogHer ’10 was: “So, do you miss your kids?” I felt like a troll each time I answered, “No, not really.” If pressed about it (which I wasn’t), I might have offered “Well, we did just spend four weeks on the road together,” or “I [...]

A few weeks ago my husband and I took our daughters to see the musical Wicked.  Our seats were high up and cramped, but we managed to enjoy the first act and get some good stretches in during intermission.  Sometime during the second act, my husband leaned over and complained he was feeling sick.  His [...]