This post is sponsored by Action Inspections Owning your own home. Ah, the things you will do. Or not do … if you’re me. I moved out of home pretty young, I guess. For a few years there I flitted from one share-house to another. Then for a while, as I aimed for independence, I had a couple […]

Look, I don’t want to be a crazy person. I am fun, dammit. I am a funny, fun loving, fun, fun, FUN person. OK? But, and I will be the first to admit, there are some things that make me not fun. Things like heavy sighing, and hissing, and marching into the living room brandishing […]

I am going to be perfectly honest with you – 14 years and four kids into this parenting game, and I’m still waiting to get called out as a fraud. But, I trudge on through, making mistakes and crossing my fingers that I’m not screwing up their little lives too much. It’s certainly been an eye-opener, […]

Some of the best and funniest threads I have been involved in on social media are the ones when we are talking about television shows as we are watching them. Sad, but true. Not Offspring, though, because … wah! But reality TV? Yeah, baby. That stuff yields some gold, and I find myself plunging into a […]

Parenting hurts. I’m not talking in an emotional ‘Oh, my heart is on the outside now’ kind of way – although there is that. What I’m talking about is the stuff that’s not in the parenting books. See, the reality behind the soft focus stock images of happy, smiling families, is that becoming a parent means […]