Category: family life

Okay, so things are FINALLY settling down to normal here after my 5 day stint at the Ridgeback National Specialty in Gettysburg, PA, which involved me leaving my almost one year-old and 4.5 year-old home alone with my cleanliness-challenged husband.  Although I have to say, I was completely shocked in a good way when I arrived [...]

Just lock me in a padded cell.  Please.  Because the enormity of my decision to leave the kids with hubby while attending the annual Ridgeback Specialty is starting to sink in.  And the deeper it sinks, the more obvious it becomes that I have utterly and completely lost my mind.
Any mother with even an ounce of sanity [...]

Hold on everyone, because here comes Armageddon.
Well, maybe not for you.  But for me?  It may as well be.  Because next week I’m leaving for four days to attend the annual Rhodesian Ridgeback National Specialty in Pennsylvania.  Which means the hubby is staying behind.  With both kids.  In the house.  ALONE.
And while the idea of [...]

Yes, I realize these photos are long overdue, but I’ve been BUSY, people.  First, with the still flowing copious amounts of snot, and second, with the posting of hideous ancient photos of old friends on facebook.  Just because I can.
At any rate, here is the damage that hubby managed to inflict on our home while [...]

You know how dogs possess preternatural powers of sensitivity in all the old animal stories?  Like whenever Timmy’s sick, Lassie mopes for days, fretting about him while laying plastered by his bedside, until at long last his fever breaks and she’s instantly joyful again?  Well I’m hear to tell you, when it comes to Ridgebacks, it’s all [...]

So I know I’m supposed to tell the story of my husband nearly castrating his finger after smashing our glass coffee table while watching the kiddage, but I have like zero time.  After staying up until 4:00 am–4:00 AM–on Saturday night for my 20 year high school reunion, I am pretty much a zombie right [...]

Today started out much the same as any other day except that my husband stayed home from work. Why?Because the two of us have turned procrastination into an art form.
In a roundabout way, my husand took a day off work due to our failure to file our ‘07 taxes.  You may remember that we, or more correctly, I, birthed our second [...]

I wasn’t going to say anything.  I really wasn’t.  But the more I think about it, the more I’m just so completely dumbfounded by the absolute retardedness of it all that I can’t possibly keep quiet.
So Friday afternoon I get an email from my husband at work. Here’s the email:
Subject: Damn, My Shirt has been Inside Out ALL DAY!

I [...]

And just when you thought nothing could get more random that synchronized diving, we decided to celebrate the Olympics at our house by starting a brand new sport:  co-ed naked trampoline bouncing.  Although I’m thinking certain anatomical challenges might make this sport less than attractive for the adult male population of our species.  Plus there’s the FCC to consider.  [...]

You never know when life is going to throw you a curve ball. Take Skye, for instance.
One day, she’s basking in the sun without a care in the world:

The next, disaster strikes in the form of an absent hot tub cover:

It’s like the epitomy of the Project Runway slogan, only in reverse: One day [...]