1. Toddlers DO know the meaning of “power trip”
2. Actually purchasing cute character panties or underpants does not ensure their use
3. Doing what “the” book or Dr. Phil or your Aunt Matilda suggests doesn’t equal an easy training process
4. Phrases like, “I trained Roger in a day” make you want to punch really helpful people
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An abundance of activity peppered with sporadic productivity typically characterizes the environment in our home. The frantic hamster wheel, otherwise known as the calendar school year, rotates forward on some days at a manageable speed of controlled chaos, while on others it spins dizzyingly backwards, carrying us to the brink of bedlam. Running a busy [...]

Wouldn’t it be great if you could clone yourself? I cannot tell you how many times IN A DAY I wish that there were two of me. For my husband that is a nightmare. Two of my opinions. Two of my debit cards. Two of my never-ending-things-I-want-to-do-to-the-house lists. I just don’t think the poor boy [...]

Turning forty ended up not being as bad as I had anticipated. It wasn’t near the emotional catastrophe envisioned or as devastating as the crows feet predicted. Even the metal in my mouth didn’t cause the slightest pause in overall joy yesterday, an orthodontic miracle most likely to not be repeated.
For the first time in [...]