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. [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

Within an hour of reaching home at the end of our month-long road trip, I asked the kids to reflect on our 6,000 miles together.  I posed the question:  “What do you think was your favorite day?”  There were a lot to choose from.  We drove on historic Route 66, taking a picture at the [...]

A month is a long time for a 2yo boy to be constantly restricted to a car seat, surrounded by his jabbering siblings, sleeping on hotel and bedroom floors, and being generally dragged this way and that.  But such a month also seems to have contained the magic formula for transforming said 2yo boy from [...]

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What?  Didn’t I tell you that we picked up an extra passenger before we headed home? To answer your question:  YES, I AM COMPLETELY INSANE!  It was not enough to drive home from Washington state by myself with the five kids – we needed to add a kitty to the mix.  My 12yo daughter fell [...]