Things, issues, and happenings I rave and rant about.
The scenes in last week’s green card interview can now be officially inaugurated in the Ruffolo Hall of Fame of the Most Epic Encounters. Our babysitter and back-up babysitter bailed out an hour before our interview so Jeff and I had no choice but to take the twins and the …
There’s a certain magic about hand-me-downs. I’m witnessing it at this very moment: our younger son Jeff Junior wearing the jacket and pants previously owned by his older brother Nicholas. When Jeff and I learned in early 2015 that we’re pregnant again, I knew that we’re having a boy. We …
I hate terrible twos. The temper tantrum stage. The screams. The meltdowns. I want to scream back, slap the producer of the earth-shattering sound, and lecture her about the importance of my eardrum.
Kalispell, Montana — Several people asked me how I manage a home with twin toddlers and a five-month-old infant while working on several blogs and finishing graduate school. I don’t pretend to know the answers. I won’t even bother to come up with a list verse bragging about how I …
It occurred to me that the only way to #EndMommyWars is for mothers with clashing views to find time to listen to each other’s thoughts or opinions. Call me judgmental here but it seemed to me that the so-called Mommy War, is mostly about jealousy, stubborness, and the feeling of …
Monday in Kalispell, MT – It is time to build a whole new ‘classroom’. Episode 3, Season 5 of Gilmore Girls was on pause mode when I glanced at one part of the wall of this home’s living room. The rightmost part is covered with names and representations of the …
In different settings and circumstances, I have become the bully and the bullied one. I was the former in my elementary years when I considered myself as the intellectually superior kid over my other classmates. I would walk around the classroom in third and fourth grade with a stick in …
A singleton after twins, is that still special? Or to rephrase this question: Did I still feel I was carrying someone extraordinary when I only had one human being inside me after that stirring and action-packed twin pregnancy?
Today has been a really long day. I was up at 6:30 a.m. and started the day with a huge breakfast of buttermilk sandwich with cream cheese, spam slices, and sunny side-up. I ended my meal by drinking two kinds of antibiotics prescribed by the doctor because I was suffering …
It has been challenging to spread love in the time of screaming children. Entering 2016 was harder than leaving 2015. It was more difficult to say “Happy New Year” than exclaim “Merry Christmas”. I am homesick.
