by Robin | Jul 27, 2010 | Humor, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Teens & Tweens, youtube ROCKS!
There’s just something about the excitement of a child–adrenaline-filled Christmas-morning anticipation, the kind of waiting-for that slows days into 24-hour eternities. His eyes have been locked on the calendar for this day. He’ll defy death...
by Robin | Jul 21, 2010 | Advice, Encouragement, Faith, Kids, Mom stuff, Music, Parenting, Personal, Teens & Tweens, Videos, youtube ROCKS!
"We're the nerds…we sit at the nerd table at lunch." It wasn't a pity party or a passive-aggressive attempt to coax a compliment from me, it was a declarative statement, a matter-of-fact assessment of "who" they were by one of their...
by Robin | Jul 13, 2010 | Family, Favorite things, Kids, Personal, Television, Videos, youtube ROCKS!
{Revised after voting: WAHOO!!! They've made it through to the next round!!} In spite of my discovery of Paul Potts (winner of Britain's Got Talent) years ago, I've never watched the show's American counterpart. My youngest loves America's...
by Robin | Jul 9, 2010 | Advice, Chattanooga, Faith, friendship, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal
It was supposed to take 15 minutes, tops. "Best laid plans" I would think later.Headed out of town the next morning, I dropped by the mall after work to pick up two things before going home to start dinner. Landing a close parking space, I...
by Robin | Jun 11, 2010 | Family, Humor, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Photos, Poetry, Teens & Tweens
The Malodorous Plight of Mother and Son "The foulest stench is in the airThe funk of forty thousand years*"I hold my breath, near despairWicked boys, give way to cheers.Confined within too small a spacePutrid, vile, scent-clouds descendI cover nose,...
by Robin | May 1, 2010 | Family, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting
My daughter, 17, suffers the occasional unsightly blemish. It's a common indignity most kids her age are facing, have faced or will face and I'd say she falls into the "lucky" category because of the operative word "occasional" in the first...