As I recall, little boys are obsessed not only with superheroes and cars and firemen and guns, but also the concept of jail and bad guys. As they get older, few places loom larger in their imaginations than the mythical place called Juvie. When we drive by our local Juvenile Hall en route to the indoor [...]
Mom, can I have a friend sleep over? More often than not these days, my answer to this question is “sure”. The boys have reached the age when the “sleepover” is no longer a misnomer and the kids actually sleep – albeit much less than they would if they were alone. But the deprivation damage [...]
A couple of years ago on a big summer trip through northern California, we ordered Chinese food from a restaurant in Berkeley called King Dong. When we showed up at our friends’ house with the little white cartons, they said “We love King Dong!” They are gay, which made this even funnier. Our boys don’t remember nearly [...]
Driving the boys to Sunday School this weekend: Noah: Mom, is Madonna a one-hit wonder? Me: No. Madonna is the opposite of a one-hit wonder. She has tons of hits. Noah (after pondering a moment): I think our band is a two-hit wonder. Me: For now. Indeed Area 51 rocked the annual school variety show [...]
All of us except Malcolm, who is too young, went to one of Philadelphia’s best kept secrets on Friday night - this annual show. Think of it as the University of Pennsylvania’s answer to Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Club, except that Mask & Wig puts on a hilarious show each year, also involving drag, instead of giving a pudding pot parade [...]
Have you ever done anything to your kid that, in retrospect, would deem you perhaps…unfit to parent? Consider the case of David Peschl, who was charged with one felony account of child abuse last Friday for allegedly shooting his 9 year old son in the butt with a BB gun. The child wrote an essay [...]
A few days ago, I got to get together with a bunch of other women bloggers in this neck of the woods. We met at the home of the Well Read Hostess, and Kristin is indeed both of those things. Also in the house were a dozen other local bloggers, but we missed Emily, who [...]
Those MoB readers who have been with us for a while might remember that in October, I committed publicly to getting in shape in my 40thyear. At that time, my 11 pound Pug could pull me down a hill. It wasn’t pretty. Since then I have been training with Kevin Pasquay at KP Fitness three [...]
The other night Chris and I were watching Chinatown, and we both said “Hey!” when Jack Nicholson ripped an obituary out of the paper for a dead guy named Jasper Lamar Crabb. Because you just don’t see my old maiden name that often. Growing up a Crabb wasn’t easy. Kids made fun of my name, and I was [...]
This past weekend I checked another item off my chick list, which is comprised of activities I am not likely to do with sons…ever. I went to a cheer leading competition. I suspect this pilgrimage was higher on Dave’s list than mine as Bring it On is one of his favorite movies of all time. But our 12 [...]
