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The Grocery Store Diaries 2

If I am to do this Bridget Jones style, I’m going to do it right: Dirty Looks: 4 “You’ve go your hands full” - 3 Break anything: 0 Today’s trip was all about teamwork, starting with digging through the carts for the…
The Grocery Store Diaries 1

Every week I think nothing new could possibly happen when I take three kids to this store. Everyone has to go to the grocery store. It doesn’t matter if the economy sucks, you have to eat, and you need tooth paste an…
Mr. Potato Head Is Not A Secret

He is timeless. He requires no batteries. He does not flash or make noise. He is a potato head, that’s Mr. Potato Head to the world. I don’t think the version they have now has changed much since the original one. H…
Walking away

I used to love to watch Judge Judy yell at the defendants and plaintiffs in her courtroom. It made perfect sense to me. They were usually idiots. Well, that isn't nice. They were people who had been caught up in th…
Finger Painting

Just the name ought to tell you to keep going and not throw it in your cart, but we buy it anyway. Finger painting is a rite of passage. It’s an “Our infant is now a toddler” kind of thing. I loved it when Frances wa…
Head to Toe

Two out of three of my children have what we simply call kidney reflux, or vesicoureteral reflux. This sounds really horrible, so I am going to explain it in quack terms, but remember, I really don’t know what I am ta…