…you go to CVS on New Year’s Eve and buy a cardboard rocketship for your kids to play with because you’re totally gonna be completely hungover the next morning & this type of entertainment might just save your life. You & your husband are gonna rock it like your 20 year old irresponsible selves used […]
The Story of the Sad Sparkle-less Sheep
Today was Sam’s school play “The Missing Tarts”. It’s about a Queen who has lost her tarts and has to visit all of the different nursery rhymes to find them. Miss Samantha was cast as one of Little Bo Peep’s sheep. Unfortunately for Sam she did not look over her contract to see what the […]
A bid of farewell to ye gallbladder & appendix
I don’t know why but I always think of organs as speaking in Olde English. Ar, but thoust did not know her toil & troubles were caused by the speck of an organ in the brewing of ye young lasses’ belly. Ok, an Old English pirate. Who might be drunk & have Scottish witch tendencies […]
The Land of Happiness, Joy & Maxed out Credit Cards
*I started this post one week ago. One week people! No, there are no crazy intriquisies, no complicated photo editing, I didn’t even include step by steps in my DIY for the dress, I went for the lazy blogger collage. It’s just been that kind of week people. Strep, sinus infections, exhaustion…and that was just […]
the high road of thanksgiving
My Dr appointment did not go as I had hoped last week. Well, kind of… I had hoped the MRI would show some definitive evidence that would support a concrete diagnosis. It didn’t. It didn’t show squat. My rheumatologist & I sat down and reviewed everything that has happened over the last year & she […]
Blinged out party dress for a pity party for one
Actually no, it’s quite the opposite. I blinged out the dress instead of attending a pity party for one. So the title should have been “Blinged out Party Dress Acts as a Cancellation for Pity Party for One” But who the heck would’ve known what that meant, right? I’ll explain more about the pity party […]
DIY Candy Cane Play Dough
Please please tell me I just caught you scratching your computer monitor because that would totally make my day (: You know, sometimes you just have to shirk all responsibilities and force yourself to do something fun. Don’t talk yourself out of it because you’ll have to wash the extra dishes afterwards or you really […]
My kid eats Play-doh. (an all natural play dough recipe)
Kitty Condo
Bored children? UPS deliveries blocking your front door? Introducing at least one hour of entertainment… KITTY CONDO! Even if you don’t have a small animal to take advantage of your child’s mad architect skills there’s always Barbie… I had two rectangle boxes that were the exact same size. One box seemed a bit small for […]
Beginner’s Salmon: Lemon Butter & Thyme
Everyone knows how good fish is for you but in reality a lot of my friends don’t cook it because they ‘don’t know how’. Come to think of it I was intimidated by the thought of cooking something that came with scales on it until I tried this salmon recipe of my mom’s. It’s a […]