Happy Holidays
Manic Motherhood is a little wild right now, what with all the checking of lists, burning of cookies and beating up weaker shoppers at the mall. So I’ll be back around the new year. Have a great holiday!
Read More..>>Cutting Down the @#$%^ Christmas Tree
My family has survived a holiday tradition. We have cut down our Christmas tree.
Sure, it sounds like fun. A happy family skips through the tree farm and finds the perfect tree. Dad cuts it down easily, without using any swear words at all. The kids watch him while sitting on logs and drinking hot chocolate. [...]
How Not to Write a Holiday Newsletter
Dear Friends and Family,
Festivus Greetings from our family! Another year has flown by and the holidays are upon us. And no matter what holiday you celebrate, we
‘Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving
With apologies to the original and to its author (either Clement C. Moore or Henry Livingston, Jr., the authorship is apparently disputed) I present
Read More..>>WTF? Do I spring forward? Or fall back?
I hate Daylight Saving Time. Okay, I do love summer nights when it doesn
Read More..>>Choosing Halloween Candy: Do’s and Don’ts
Candy corn isn’t fun corn, it’s icky candy.
Look, even sugary sweets have a hierarchy. And in the Halloween candy hierarchy candy corn is gross. And icky. And quite possibly the only candy nobody really wants to eat. Informal studies conducted in my kitchen have shown candy corn is always the last candy to be consumed. And mostly it’s eaten when there’s absolutely, positively no other candy left on earth. Yes, that’s how icky candy corn really is.
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