A Simple Country Mouse

HEAR ME ROAR!!! Today I was invited to a BBQ and as Josh is off out and about with work I thought why not? It would give the kids play time, and me some people to connect to...or so I foolishly thought. Yes, the kids did get to play, but me? Hardly anyone talked to me and yet I was trying so hard to keep the kids behaving. Of course Sam is a hellion just like her mother, and Clay is teething like crazy. So basically Sam instigates trouble, Clay is screaming, and I'm trying to old it all together, make a salad, corral my daughter, and calm my son in front of this whole group of prissy little white picket fence perfect couples and their perfect little kids all while gaining glares from half the women and ignored by pretty much everyone else. Yeah, awesome night. Did I mention it's also our Anniversary? Despite all that and the hour drive home I spent crying, I'm going to tell you why I'm F***ing Supergirl and Wonder Woman. I am a trucker's wife, a mother of 2 that sp...

Ever heard the term "Star-struck"? No it doesn't refer to the actual stars in the sky. It often refers to the stars on TV. For most people when a celebrity is around or acknowledges someone, that someone often goes a little gaga. Not a bad thing, just kind of amusing for those of us who no longer have the capacity to be star struck. Fun fact, I grew up in a valley filled with multi-million dollar homes, and people who threw money around like it was leaves on a tree. As a matter of fact, we locals often prayed that the "rich and famous" so to say wouldn't choose the property a mile from our homes. Insurance would go through the sky as it was already through the roof. My dad's company built many, many, many of these insane homes. The kicker, the owners often called them "two week a year vacations cabins". Cabins! These places could fit two to three of the house I grew up in and my house wasn't tiny. To put it in perspective, I grew up in a 3...

It always seems like parents are asking each other "Is it bed time yet?" Once upon a time when we were all kids we avoided bed like the plague. Now? Please, please, please let it be bed time! As a parent here's what bedtime means. 1. Children are in bed (hopefully asleep) 2. Free time! (to do all those chores you didn't get to earlier) 3. Children are in bed (no more screaming) 4. Oh look, movie! Never mind...dish duty calls. 5. Children are in bed (no more mass crying for whatever) 6. Snuggle time? Ugh, it's to hot. 7. Children are in bed (no temper tantrums) 8. Maybe we get to actually sleep now! 9. Children are in...nope they're up now. And end post.