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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“That thing totally creeps me out.” That was Dave in early December. He was watching TV as I was flailing around the house doing something terribly urgent. But I stopped to see what he was talking about because I couldn’t fathom what could possibly creep my husband out. This is a man who peeked over [...]
Have you ever eaten Italian food with an Italian? You know who they are because while they may sound like me in regular conversation, when referring to the cuisine they switch gears and use the authentic Italian pronunciation. This involves dropping the vowel endings from most words. Prosciutto = Preshoot Mozzarella = Mootzerelle Ricotta = [...]
This past week the world let out a collective gasp as Michael Phelps got caught smoking pot. I yawned and wondered how that bong held up under the lung capacity of an Olympic caliber athlete. And where was the lovely Mrs. Phelps during this wave of media attention? It would have been perfect timing [...]
Going on a treasure hunt X marks the spot Three lines down And a question mark. Noah sidles up to me a few times each week with the same request. It is asked with enough regularity that I can see it coming before he speaks, the words so common that they blend together into one: “Momwillyouscratchmyback?” [...]
Another Super Bowl come and gone and my boys truly don’t care. They didn’t care when our home team, the Philadelphia Eagles, beat the NY Giants to make it to the NFC Championship game. And they didn’t even notice that the Birds lost to the other birds, the Cardinals, two weeks ago. Come to think [...]
My lap top is sick. As I sit here tapping on his frail little keys, I worry about whether he will even live to the ripe old age of three. Little symptoms have been popping up for months. He won’t shut down by himself. He freezes at strange moments. His desktop doesn’t display unless I [...]
Last week I had an interesting Wall-to-Wall conversation on Facebook. The lovely mother of one of Noah’s friends (who is also MY Facebook friend) commented that she needed a gown for an upcoming party, to which I offered her a foray into my closet which is …ahem… replete with party dresses. She could borrow one. [...]
