An old family friend is a well-regarded Colon and Rectal surgeon. His life is spent looking up the rear ends of other people. Gross you might say. Well, someone needs to do it, and he has certainly made quite a lucrative lifestyle out of fixing people up back there. He jokes that he is a…

I am embarrassed to say that there is one magic button I cannot get enough of. Minds out of the gutter, gals...I am not talking about what goes on in the boudoir. In fact, I am talking about the automatic door button on my 2006 Honda Odyssey XL. Not only is my car the smoothest…

Is it just me or do other mothers feel like they border on manic? Yesterday was an amazing day with my kids. Today, however, I found myself looking for that silly club started on Facebook . It's called something like "I need a glass of wine before I give my kids away." I need to…

I feel blessed to have parents who offer to take the kids now and then so Gordie and I can get away. We had the good fortune of going up to Okemo skiing this weekend together, leaving the chaos of home life temporarily behind. It was true bliss, not that I didn't miss them a…

So we got through the snow day. The kids actually did really well until about 9:30 when the first gloves went on. Prior to that, there was a lot of peace, love, and happiness while they played Barbies (yep, Tom too). By 10:15, Hadley was down for the count and the bell went off. Tom…

Allrighty... I saw a more questionable forecast (still says only 7 inches here), but the facts don't change. I'm still going to be stuck in the house with my beloved trio of children!! I'll be hosting an open house at 11. It's bring your own brick of Mad Dog. I'll be providing Cheddar Bunnies…