I am a horrible mother. Horrible in the sense that I tease my 7-year-old boy with the relentless tenacity of, well, a 7-year-old boy. Especially when it comes to the ladies in his life.
Last year it was young Bella. She could not have been cuter or sweeter, and the way they gazed into each other’s little [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘life lessons’
March 9, 2010
Young love
March 3, 2010
It’s the bee’s knees
So just a short while ago I asked for warmer weather to get here and to get here soon. Then I went upstairs, where I was greeted with this:
Not quite what I meant, Mother Nature. That guy looks mean and angry as hell to be awake on March 3. I think this is what they [...]
March 3, 2010
Random thoughts for a Wednesday
I’m tired of politics. I mean honestly, everyone is so damn nasty.
As I get older, I seem to already be losing my memory on certain things. Except for “Baby Got Back.” I still know all the words to that.
If you want to get your husband to shut up, it is as easy as muttering two [...]
February 25, 2010
Dear Creepy Gymnast Girl at LA Fitness,
Hello there. Do you remember me? My name is Marney, and I am the older, fatter girl who was in the trainer room last night. You remember me, right? See, I was on the mat, alternating my reverse crunches with my swissball jackknives. Yeah, I know, it’s funny to watch that. But yes, that was me.
I [...]
February 24, 2010
What happens at the end?
I try to be an upbeat person most of the time (at least, upbeat in the sense that I am grouchy and sarcastic, but I’m trying to be WITTY about it). I think I have a pretty good life and I really have no complaints. But I realized in the past few days that I [...]
February 17, 2010
What are you giving up for Lent?
I was raised Catholic, and we are currently members at our local ELCA Lutheran Church. And for 36 years, that question has been the bane of my existence once a year as Ash Wednesday rolls around. What are you giving up? The answer is always the same — hell, I don’t know!
I think as a kid [...]
January 29, 2010
When cliches aren’t so funny anymore
So I’ve been having a pretty good week, all the regular stuff happening. Kids are good, house is good, husband is doing well. Nothing out of the ordinary has really happened at all. But earlier this week, I had to write a story for the newspaper I work for, and it was not good. It [...]
January 28, 2010
It’s on, little man
I don’t normally write two entires in one day. I realize that all of you are so insanely impressed with my witty story telling abilities and my astute observations that reading two entries in a single day could very well strike you blind with joy for having read such awesomeness.
But I will chance it. Because [...]
January 17, 2010
Why Rush doesn’t matter
I have been hesitant to write this week about the tragedy of the earthquake in Haiti, only because I am so frustrated with the responses of certain individuals with over-sized personal pulpits that reach coast to coast who seem to not really care, and was afraid that the point of the matter would be lost in my [...]
January 11, 2010
Boy wonder
They say that there are two types of children out there: those who love to read, and those who loathe it.
Those who loathe it are not necessarily bad students or destined for low paying, paper-hat wearing jobs for all eternity. Quite the opposite, the ones who see reading as a chore might instead flourish in areas [...]
