How My Friday Turned into A Monday

obey drama llamas

Or this post could be titled: How I Was Banned from Convenient Care I love my parents to death, but some days I suspect they may be the death of me, especially on a Friday turned Monday.  After many phone calls from the Drama Llamas, I started having bouts of paranoia coupled with night sweats and dreams of men in white lab coats sawing off my leg. So in an effort to put their minds at ease and stave off paranoia for at least another five to ten years, I went to the doctors for a Tetanus shot. You see a long, long time ago, back when dirt made the world go round and antibacterial … [Read more...]

A Two Slushy Kind of Day

a trip to the zoo

Today is a two-part post kind of day. First part is What I Wore Wednesday and the second part is our trip to the zoo.  Since I'm only showing one outfit, I thought I'd combine the two; however, I did get dressed more than once this week.  I promise! Dress:  Target (too long ago to include a link), Half-tee:  Half-tee.com, Bag:  Charming Charlies, Necklace:  Glad Fishy borrowed from my daughter. Go visit The Pleated Poppy for oodles of fashion inspiration! Now, part 2 - The Zoo. ---------------------------------------------------------- Yesterday was a two slushy kind of … [Read more...]

SBFF In Search Of TDHFD

Zoo animals

Single Brown Fleecy Female in search of Tall Dark Handsome Furry Dentist. Enjoys dinner at the hayloft and free range grazing. Interested in hanging out with friends and comparing wool. Is known to spit occasionally, but only when prompted. Please send all inquiries to the zoo. … [Read more...]

The Summer that Once Was

Well, summer's over, but it was nice when it was here.  I guarantee we enjoyed two whole weeks of it.  I have absolutely no idea what we'll do when the kids finally get out of school.  Maybe we'll be snowboarding by then, or something.  Hopefully something else, but you just never know. We did go swimming once during our very short summer.  That's a success.  At least the kids can say they swam and dreamed of being slightly sunburned.  A slight sunburn would be the only way to remember it was actually summer.  Once. Even I went swimming with them, although it was purely … [Read more...]

The Tropics Would Be Nice

slippy lizard

Slippy, FringeBoy's lizard, is having troubles.  He slipped into a coma yesterday afternoon, maybe hibernation is a better word.  I don't know, but I do know Slippy is freezing to death.  I may have to make the ultimate mom sacrifice and get on a one-way flight to the tropics with him. This morning his tank was fifty-eight degrees, our predicted outside high for the day.  He's in a fish tank with a fish light over him and I thought that would keep him warm, but I doubt it since he's been curled in a fetal position for eighteen hours.  I admit I felt a little panicked.  I don't want … [Read more...]

The Cost of Free

fish up close

I told you how doing a simple favor for my neighbor ended up with me spending a whole bunch of money.  I'm still confused by how love thy neighbor turned into buy my kids fish, but life is funny like that.  I just have to go with the flow until the flow ends up draining my bank account.  Then I have to set boundaries, because my kids would be terribly disappointed when there was nothing to eat in the house except for their pet fish, and they sure as heck wouldn't want me frying up their little swimmer friends for dinner. So after much arguing discussion between the children, two trips to … [Read more...]

Bat Blood on My Couch

BAT

Good glory the end is near! There was a bat in my house tonight.  A. BAT! Help me Lord.  This is not funny.  I don't deal well with wild animals, especially wild animals that carry rabies and fly around in the night.  One lone bat could fly into my hair and get lost for a week.  I don't know what I would do if that happened, but lighting my hair on fire would not be too extreme. That bat could have flown into my children's rooms and sucked their very life from their small pumping veins.  Oh, wait.  Maybe that's a vampire. Same difference in my book. Now we don't know how … [Read more...]

Running for our Lives

Last night after dinner I needed to get out of the house.  Do you ever have those moments when the desire to "go out" feels similar to what inmates must feel when they decide a jail break is in order? Not that I've ever been involved in a jail break, so I don't speak from experience.  Just want to be clear.  Sometimes my written words don't exactly communicate my message. So after dinner, we piled into the car and went down to the river's edge.  Actually my entire family sat in the car waiting for me, but I had no idea they left.  I guess I was off in lala-land.  Not uncommon, but … [Read more...]

Devil Dog On My Porch – Dream Houe, Part 5

Limerick 13

"Really?  The house is still standing?"  John asked into the phone with me hanging on his shoulder listening. "Ok, we'll be up on Saturday morning."  He hung up the phone. We both sat with a thump.  Shaking out heads in disbelief, we kept murmuring, I can't believe the house didn't fall. Finally I grasped that our entire porch, the porch that wrapped around two full sides of our house fell to the ground. "The porch is what sold me on the house."  I said as if it mattered.   Ice built on the roof, slipping between the porch and the house, finally tearing the … [Read more...]

Attacked by a Nutter-Butter eating…

2 days on the Hudson 081

You remember my post from not too long ago when the FringeFamily was being stalked by a super-intelligent mouse with illusionist characteristics, don't you? If not read My Husband Didn't Marry an Ax Murderer, but then come right back.  You really will need some background info on our rodent escapades. About two days after the post where I vowed to go all ax-murderer crazy on the mouse, we caught him.  Sweet success.  Just to be certain he wasn't running in a gang (I'm not sure how I know it was a he, but it was), we left the remaining traps lying around the house emitting tantalizing … [Read more...]