This week’s guest post contributor is Michelle. She is a stay at home mom, blogger, tea drinker and avid reader. When she’s not refereeing her three kids, she blogs at I’m Living the Good Life and Family Friendly Cincinnati. They say summer time is the best time to potty train. Especially for boys. Let them run around […]
Whiteboard Wednesday
Thanksgiving Therapy
It gives me great pleasure to introduce you to Julie. A mild-mannered accountant from 9-5, Julie’s Frayn’s writer alter-ego comes to life in the off hours. When she isn’t counting beans or making things up in her head, she is mother to two perfect adults. Julie’s first novel, Suicide City, A Love Story, can be found on Smashwords and Amazon. […]
Whiteboard Wednesday: The Taste Bud Edition
We’re eating dinner, which consists of sausages baked in the oven because our barbecue is buried under snow. These aren’t the usual sausages we cook, the ones that come wrapped tightly in industrial plastic from a supermarket the size of Saskatchewan. These are from-a-butcher sausages, which means they have flavour. William inhales his ketchup with […]
How To Drive Your Parents To Drink
When I tweeted this, I likely should’ve shut my computer. To be fair, the ball wasn’t exactly a volleyball. It was a globe. An inflatable one. Vivian and William were using the sofa that divides the kitchen from the living room as a net. And they were spiking. Meanwhile, I was drinking club soda from […]
Beware of Playing Tag with Weapons
When Vivian and William were little, I was anti-gun and anti-fun, but I soon realized that there are plenty of legitimate ways for them to kill themselves that don’t require a locked up cabinet. Take yesterday. I was in a splendid mood. I had yet to embed a Lego figurine into the sole of my […]
Daughters, Bad Breath, and Losing It
I’m pleased to bring you my first ever Whiteboard Wednesday Guest Post. Chad Jones is a hilarious dad of two who I suspect sticks his foot in his mouth nearly as often as I do. He blogs about the bizarre (and slightly-less-bizarre) aspects of faith as well as being both a dad and husband. The […]
Children in Cages
I’m sitting on our couch after work, one of those long days when 89% of my brain has already been sacrificed to middle school students. William is doing what he does best: babble incessantly about a fantasy world as though it’s more natural than Pamela Anderson’s breasts. Which it is. Will is holding his latest […]
Wit and Women and a Husband
Last night I went to my first Wit and Women class (and if anyone wants to suggest it should be Wit or Women, I will photocopy your face 66 times while I sit on the copier’s lid). I will blog more about this adventure soon. Let’s just say it’s a great program that makes me […]
The Return of Whiteboard Wednesday
Today marks the return of Whiteboard Wednesdays. If you have no idea what this is, neither do my kids. So know that you’re not alone. Basically, Whiteboard Wednesday is when I write down something semi-idiotic that I said while parenting in the past week. This is easier than it seems. Some past Whiteboard Wednesday comments […]
Girls, dancing, and clothes
Vivian loves to dance. A few times a week, we waltz around the kitchen, jive in the entry, or crazy dance in the living room. She used to wish desperately that we’d sign her up for dance classes; now, she’s stopped asking. I know there are a zillion benefits to dance, from coordination to confidence, […]