All of you parents with elementary aged school children, be warned: by the time your kid reaches high school, make sure you have lots of money, power tools, and great neighbors.
My oldest son Tyler is a …

This week we had our first Middle School Football scrimmage for Thing 2 and Thing 3 at my house. Of course with my luck, they were on the same day, at opposite stadiums.
Decisions, decisions. 

Last night was the Middle School Open House.
I really did not want to go.  Ohmygoodnesssplease I could think of a million other things to do than run around the middle school from 7 to 9:30 …

Dear Google,
I want to say thank you.
Last week, during the first week of school, my sixteen year old son announced that he’d figured out all by himself what ‘natural numbers’ are. Well, I think it …

I arrived home today from my work trip to Dallas, still feeling some of the mom guilt that crept up on me for missing the first few days of school.
I’m sure the fatigue …

If you live anywhere near me and happened to look outside yesteday and see someone doing cartwheels down the street in their pajamas, that was probably yours truly.
The school year is off to a …

If you’re like me, and a working mom, here are a few tips if you happen to be out of town on the first day of school:
1.) Don’t stop at a truck stop on your …

I waited until the absolute worst possible day to take the kids to the mall for back to school shopping: the Saturday before every child attending public school in Texas starts. Yeah, brilliant, I …

Here it is, less than a week now before school starts, and I am almost in panic mode.
Yes, of course, I am Team Captain of the Cheerleading Squad for moms ready to send their …

The clock is ticking.
Not just until my birthday, but obviously we are in the final count down until D-day, the day all my teacher friends hate, and all my mom friends wait 3 months …

I don’t know how this happened.
With all my talk of summer ending and sending the kids back to school, I somehow didn’t realize back to school is SO SOON.
Yeah, yeah, I know as much as …

Be very still and listen for a moment.
Do you hear that? I mean really hear it?
If you are within a 3 block radius of my house, you probably cannot hear much because the …