Skylar A Horrific Birthday Surprise That Was Fine I told you a while ago that my dragon slayer started torturing me around February with birthday threats. Skylar's track record on birthday surprises: they are the most amazingly thoughtful
EMBARRASSING I'm So Brave To Share This I'm finally ready to tell you the full story of the thing that happened to me two years ago just behind my house. I had just gotten home from work
Duncan Adoption Anniversary One thing they don't warn you when you choose to be gay and get a very gay dog is you will suddenly be required to spend a lot of your
House A Little Secret I'll let you in on a secret They don't tell you when you buy a home with a yard because They want you to fail. I don't know who They
Duncan Teeth Cleaning We were told some time ago that you really should get your dog's teeth cleaned. This was a part of a lecture that included advice that I'm 100% positive no
Jude A True Democracy One of the plus sides to living in These Unprecedented Times is many of my friends realized all at once that they could actually just go ahead and get really
Ridiculous Hedgy A couple years ago my friend Anna got Duncan a little stuffed animal hedgehog. She called it "Hedgy" and this quickly became Duncan's very favorite toy. My little man was
Ridiculous A Good Finder A couple years ago I found this film about dating and marriage produced by BYU in 1956 and I talked about it on Strangerville when I did the four-part series
The Beehive Change Ok nobody panic but I changed some stuff. I know. I know. We're not supposed to change things. Change is not a thing we handle. There's a reason we're all
Medical School Physical Exam I heard it before I saw it. It was coming from the next room over. A one-sided medical based conversation by my exhausted spouse who has been working graveyard shifts
Ridiculous Baby Clothes Cashier: These little t-shirts are cute! Who are they for? Me: Oh, uh . . . my . . . uh . . . my baby. They're for my baby. Cashier: Boy or girl? Me: Boy. Cashier: Wonderful! And
Pictures from my phone Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Mamma's tired but here are some pictures and a few quick distractions for your perusal. I don't want no bunny banana frog ok no way. Duncan and Jude taking a
The Perfects Dead Rat Our greatest neighborhood allies are the Perfects next door. When I bought this house in The Year of Our Lord Eleventy Hundred, I was too intimidated to talk to them
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions We are so very overdue for a Pictures & Distractions post and I have some fun stuff to share with you. So here it is. Matt turned 40. The birthday
Ollie Indogpendence Day Yesterday was Independence Day (happy birthday, America. Sorry your party sucked.) Normally we throw a Fourth of July party where all of our friends come over and lick their hands
knitting Skylar Looks Good In Sweaters A couple months ago I called my knitting store down the street #supportlocal #citizenoftheyear #It'sScaryToTalkOnThePhone #bravery. I had picked a new sweater to knit, something that would be the most
Medical School Quite A Lot Of Pressure Skylar is supposed to get his test scores any day now and I simultaneously need it to happen immediately and not for a while. He is antsy and it is
Emily Sand Dunes Skylar finished his test a week ago yesterday and listeners, I now have a husband with too much time on his hands. Remember last week when I wrote to you
Ollie The Thing About 2020 I have two friends who tested positive for the Rona recently. I won't say their names here because of HIPPO or whatever. I don't know. I don't really know anything
Medical School Micromanager Happy weekend, one and all. It's Thursday afternoon but NewYearNewMe so I'm going to start considering Thursdays part of the weekend. And maybe Wednesdays. And entire tubs of caramel pecan
The Beehive So I Guess I'm Vegan Now In 2019 I decided I was going to try to eat less meat because I was basically personally responsible for the slaughter of millions of animals each year and I
Ridiculous Good Parents You all know that I have the cutest dog in all the land, right? Like, yours is cute, too, I'm sure. But mine is like the supermodel of dogs. Much
Ridiculous The People of Lagoon As you know since you are all experts on my life, I have gotten a Lagoon season pass every year since 2013. Why do I do this? I don't know.
Ollie What are you watching? We're all binging TV shows and movies right now and that's ok. If there is anyone in your life telling you that is not ok, you should get new people
Duncan This Supposed End of the World On Friday night Skylar started having a meltdown. To give you some perspective, his meltdowns don't look like mine. Mine are like the Chernobyl disaster. His are more of a
