I Used To Have A Brain

Hi. I'm still alive and kickin, just not writing. I miss this blog.  I like to write, always have, and this has been a great way for...

Parenthood, and life in general, can be exhausting, but keeping things in perspective certainly helps. Sometimes my kids (especially my m...

I'm having kind of a bad day. It's one of those days where I feel like I'm failing at life, which I realize is ridiculous beca...

Time for a stream-of-consciousness post of sorts. The toddlers in my life are big into hide and seek.  They are generally terrible hiders,...

Since last fall, all my kids during the day are toddlers except Izzy, and she's not the one making most of the mess.  Toddlers are messy...

Care to join me while I reminisce? Did I spell reminisce right? I must have because spell check didn't say anything.   Moving on... ...

Get ready for the random vomiting of info you didn't know you needed to know and really don't need to know. Ready? 1.  Litt...

We've all seen it. You're at the store, just trying to get a little shopping done, and there is a woman with her kids nearby.  And...

Some random stuff 1. I don't like candy corn.  I used to think it was a really weird thing to not like candy corn, until one October w...

Snapshots of what we've been up to lately: Sticker math Practicing printing with shaving cream Color mixing project ...

Confession: I get mildly annoyed when bloggers don't reply or comment back to my comments.  Few bloggers whom I read actually do a gr...

1.  If there are chocolate chip or sugar cookies in the house in the morning, I will have at least one for breakfast, dunked in my coffee of...

If you live in MN, chances are you've been complaining about, or at least thinking about complaining about the heat and humidity.  The o...

I recently blogged about Facebook .  In that post I ranted about how it drives me nuts when people refuse to use punctuation, or halfway dec...

Monday evening I couldn't find my purse.  Tuesday morning I found it in the dishwasher. It drives me crazy when I'm reading a go...

Pregnancy lasts 9 months, or 10 months depending on how you count it, but after the baby is born and your body ceases to be a vessel for gro...

You know how you mention how bad something would be if it happened? Or how lucky you've been that something hasn't happened?  And th...

Facebook. It's pretty much awesome as far as I'm concerned.  While there are some aspects of it that drive me nuts, I don't kn...

Sometimes I feel like a hunting dog.  Particularly an off-season-neglected hunting dog. I'm kept in my home and yard most days out ...

First: Last weekend Spencer and I went to see Nunsense which was being done by ERCT.  It was the most fun I have had in a long time!  The w...