Your Tax Dollars at Work, Ladies and Gentlemen!

This post has nothing to do with the fact that I am the mother of nine children.  UNLESS you consider that it DOES have to do with the job that my husband has, that keeps all of our nine children in clothes and food and heat and Legos. 
I know.  Kinda reachin’, huh?  But here [...]

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A Post in Which Dead Animals are Written About (and Sentences are Ended With Prepositions)

Sure, we’re doing school here.  Every day.  But the other day we DIDN’T do school because our oldest son wanted to skin a varmint he found on the side of the road.  Yep.  Roadkill.  So before rigor mortis set in, I let him.  Not my idea of a good time, let me tell you, but [...]

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Could He BE Any Cuter?!

This afternoon, after changing our littlest one’s 284th diaper of the day, I sat him up in front of me and began talking to the little cutie.  He immediately got this expression on his face that was a cross between Gomer Pyle and a Shar-Pei.  (One of those wrinkly dogs.)  You know, the mouth hanging [...]

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I Forgot…..

The rest of the post below was supposed to end like this……
And then I slunk (slinked?  slank?) off to bed and seriously considered asking my husband to slap me across the face a few times.  So then, maybe, I’d feel better.
For…..you know…..winning the Meanest Mommy in the Universe Award.
Sigh.

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In the Wee Hours of the Morning. When Normal People Are Sleeping.

Our 4-year-old went to bed last night with a runny nose and fever.  She woke up 78 times in the night, whimpering pitifully until I went to her, at which time she asked in pitiful, feathery whispers for a kleenex or more water or another blanket. 
Except for one time very early this morning.  When I [...]

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Today

My husband took our 3 oldest boys to participate in the zoo clean-up in a nearby town today.  Which means that I was home today with six children, only two of whom were of the male persuasion.  Diaper-clad male persuasion at that.  Which tells you that the most annoying things that were done by boy children [...]

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This Morning

It is very telling that I find this significant enough to blog about, but I just can’t help myself.
This morning on Sesame Street, Cookie Monster was sporting dreadlocks.  They were blue.  And he was rapping.
And now my children know that they, also, can be healthy dudes if they eat healthy foods. 
I realize that this topic has nothing to do [...]

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The Necklace

When I had our newest baby, my parents told me that they wanted to give me something other than flowers for a change.  They had heard me talk about nursing necklaces, and so they told me to find one and buy it, and that would be their new-baby gift to me.  If you’ve never seen [...]

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Tidbits

So I have a few little bits and pieces of posts, but not enough to make one really good post.  So here are the bits.  The pieces may come later because I need to get to bed before Hairy Babe needs his every-two-hour Ben and Jerry’s fix.
First.  The other day at lunch, various children were [...]

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A Different Kind of Post

Doing something a little different today.  I received a comment from a British reader that I couldn’t NOT make a big deal over.  It was priceless!  First of all, if you haven’t read this post, go read it.  We’ll wait.  Really! 
Done?  Okay, now read the comment below.  After you’re done laughing yourself silly, you [...]

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