Someday Soon You Will Have a Break From Posts About Vomit and Temper Tantrums

Little bit of business here…..
In one month, I will be without internet until we get a house.
I know.  I have a paper bag, open and ready, right here beside me in case I begin to hyper-ventilate.
Yummy Man and I decided to not get a laptop for this time because we like NOT spending $600 [...]

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First Thing This Morning.

3-Year-Old doesn’t seem to be understanding the whole Daddy-will-be-gone-for-a-few-weeks thing.  She has asked me where Daddy is three times a day since he’s been gone.
3-Year-Olds don’t have concepts of time.  Or units of measurement.
(Recently, one of my children became irritated at a sibling who continued to ask her the same question over and over again.  When I [...]

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I Think I Pulled Something

I have recently discovered something really cool about having kids that are slowly becoming young adults.
They get their own sense of humor.
So instead of laughing at your cute little baby who just discovered his hands, you’re laughing at something that your 10-year-old said that was funny.
On purpose.
I found myself outside today, bent over at the [...]

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Yesterday

Me:  “Okay, 3-Year-Old, run upstairs and pick out a play dress for today.”
3-Year-Old:  “But Mommy!  I want to be nekkid!”  (Our modesty training slamming headlong into the reality of our chubby, curly daughter’s need to be FREE!!!!!)
Me:  “You cannot be nekkid, okay?  Now run upstairs for Mommy and pick out a dress.”
3-Year-Old:  “But MOMMY!  I [...]

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When the Cat’s Away, the Mice Play…..or When Yummy Man is Away, I Blog About Him….or Something Like That

Yummy Man is not an emotional guy.  I could count on one hand the number of times I have heard/seen him cry. 
Okay, I could probably count on HALF a hand. 
Minus one-and-a-half fingers.
But deep down an emotional guy lurks.  He’s just very wary of coming out because he got beaten to a bloody pulp [...]

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Unfunny-ness

I’m not feeling very funny today.
I’m actually feeling weepy and sad and like I just want to lay in bed and cry for a little while.  At least until supper.
Glad you stopped by this morning, aren’t you?
My husband left for Arizona this morning.  You’d think I would be used to this after 15 years in [...]

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Every Day of My Life

I know.  I should be working instead of blogging, but right now, everything is under control.
 Because even though I just wrote a post on the levels of stress that I am under, I am famous for embellishing.
 Okay, not famous.  Just.  Um.  Okay, I guess I’m a big, fat liberty-taker that 50 or so people read [...]

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A Post in Which I Use the Word “Stressed” Way Too Much

Hi there!  My name is Allison!  I’m a Stressed-Out Mother of Nine! 
What’s that? 
WHY am I a stressed out mother of nine?
Um.
Let’s see.
Yummy Man is leaving in a few days for Arizona.
Where it’s……
Okay, okay.  I know you’re sick of that.  Here.  Here’s a new one.
Yummy Man is leaving in a few days for Arizona.  [...]

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Moving Sale

Yep.  We’re having one this weekend.
The reason that we are having this moving sale is because my husband wants to see what I look like all made up, lying in a casket, dead of stress-related injuries, namely ROTDGOHSS.  Which, to you laymen out there, means that I will have keeled over from complications from Releasement of [...]

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Another Recipe. Sorry, Dad.

This is so not the way I want to go with my blog, but maybe it’s inherent.  I have a bunch of kids, so I must be a good cook.
Definitely not a given, let me tell ya.
See, my mom never taught me how to cook.  And I’m not faulting her because I’m right there with [...]

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