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Humor Updates inspired by but not limited to the trials and observations gathered via raising eight children. Updates on Sunday, Tuesday and Friday Guaranteed, plus extras when time allows. Why? Because fish and comedy start to smell after three days an
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For When Wearing a Snuggie Just Isn\'t Nerdy Enough
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Time for a Scary Story
There is one person on the planet who hates shopping for clothes more than me.My daughter.The trouble is, she's growing. She's already taller than me. Uniforms have saved our relationship thus far but there will come a day when she needs an entire wa...
Summer Re-runs
Because it is summer and there are water gun fights to have, ice cream to eat, stupid movies to watch and marathon games of crazy eights, parchisi, poker and Wii Smash Brothers to play, I too, shall adopt the network philosophy of occasionally throwi...
Kobayashi Maru Test
For those unfamiliar with the title reference, Captain Kirk didn't believe in a "no win" senario. As I recall, regardless of the interpretation, be it Gene Roddenbery or Abrams' James Tiberius Kirk, the lad did not spend much time raising toddlers.He...
The American Milky Way
The economy affects us all.In a family of 11, there are limitations on resources like milk. Our refrigerator can only hold so many gallons, especially when you add other needed items like meat, butter, vegetables and adult liquid fuel also known as d...
Remembering 13 years...
My daughter turned 13. She's so much more together than I was when I was that age. (I put the awk in awkward). She reads more. She knows more. She automatically pays attention to detail in a way I still have to consciously consider to manage.When she...
Splinters
Every year I begin a crusade. I believe children should be shod when they go outside. Shoeless Joe Jackson and his fellow barefoot comrades view the coming of crocuses and planting of gardens as a sign to lose any footwear they may have consented ...
Where's My Warrantee?
When the vacuum, dryer and dish washer all die on the same day and the microwave is hiccupping as it goes through the motions of melting cheese onto a tortilla, how do you do triage assessment of the most dire needs? Even more, how do you survive th...
A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing
Back in college, I took a great class called Fantasy and Philosophy. The first half of the course, we sped through the Elliatics --early Greek thinkers, discussing all is numbers, all is atoms, all is air or fire, and then Aristotle and Plato, all is...
If Today You Hear Mom's Voice, Listen Up!
Moms have this gift. It isn’t a power, it’s a Darwinian evolutionary trait designed to ensure the long term viability of the species as a whole. The inner ear wakes Mom at 3 am because there was an odd cough and knows the six year old just threw ...
The Riddle of the Sphinx Solved!
My eighth child is so silent, we've had her ears and speech evaluated. It turns out, if you exhaust all genetic possibilities, you do occasionally get a quiet kid. This does not mean she is docile.Like the Mighty Sphinx, she sits in her high chair an...
All Hail the EVIL OVERLORD!
This is a funny funny list...so I'm putting it here for you to cut and paste and visit. In honor of the Evil Overlord, I've added my ten below as well. (The kids have been sick so writing time is at a premium). http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/ove...
Weather or Not
Weather or NotRemember the good old days, when everyone talked about the weather but no one tried to do anything about it? The sun shone. The clouds gathered. Sometimes it rained. Sometimes it didn’t. People went about their errands without fee...
Gotta Dance
Today was my daughter’s first ballet lesson. She’s been aching to dance since I took her to see the Nutcracker and told her I’d signed her up. Every morning, she would ask, “Is today my dance lesson?” and we’d check the calendar. Thi...
Be it Never So Humble, This is Our Home
In the cosmic struggle between order and chaos that takes place on a daily basis on the great battlefield known as my home, the one sure loser is the house. When we moved into our latest residence, I kept waiting for the Posh police to come by and f...
One Sentence Movie Reviews
We may or may not be getting out of the hospital today. I am waiting on a report. In the meantime, my computer is not able to go online, and thus any writing is the result of impromptu material generated on the screen at the hospital. It is much h...
Christmas Canards
It’s that time of year again. Just after Halloween, someone puts on the radio and my children discover the Christmas music station. There is great rejoicing amongst the under 12 set as they discover wonder of wonders, that this station plays onl...
Haiku Haiku, I don't know how to do...
I’ve never been any good at Haikus, I’m not even sure how to write the plural of Haiku. Seventeen syllables has always seemed arbitrary to me, like having a plastic flower in a glass vase at the dinner table to create ambiance. Still, I picked up...
