The fastest way to get me to do something dumb is to challenge me and, like most entertaining things in my life, this one started on Facebook. My friend Matt (also known as the Strongman competition guy who taught me how to do a proper chest press and then had me turn upside down and …
Man, I love these kids. Especially when they’re asleep…;) It was two days before Christmas. How many a story has started similarly? It’s a cliche of the tiredest sort. Add in a frazzled mother and over-excited small children and those six words take on a strangely sinister meaning. The stories never end with “and then …
I swore I’d never be a lip kisser. At least with anyone I wouldn’t consider joining gene pools with. This was born out of enduring years of aggressive lip-kisses from a few particular people for whom hygiene was marginal and personal space was non-existent. And yet, here I am, a lip-kisser. And you know what …
When bad cookies happen to good cartoons. (Nobody saw anything wrong with this before it went to production? Really??) Important things first: Gingerbread, as we know it, is nasty. Every year we rediscover this as my kids try to eat the gingerbread house we make. It’s like cat food, as imagined by Nate Berkus. (Real …
Okay so I do not have a towel boy. (Do those even exist anymore? And if s o, is their job really just to bring you towels?) But, from group-fit instructors to yoga teachers to personal trainers to nutritionists, I do have a lot of great fitness people in my life! And there’s no better …
I swear I did not do this to her. Totally Jelly Bean’s idea! You can’t hear but she’s giggling. She has no idea what a dunce cap is anyhow. But this is the ending! This is how it all started: When a mysterious pink package showed up on our doorstep, the kids pounced on it. …
Flowers, funeral programs. Obituary, organ donation. What you’ll dress them in. Will you have a viewing and if so, will the casket be open? Who do you want to pray? What picture do you want displayed? Is it copyrighted? A death is a big thing but it leaves so many little details that must be …
Remember this not-so-sneaky pose? (I would hope so, it’s from yesterday’s post.) Well, you’re looking at the last pic of me pain-free, Wednesday morning. Ever since Wednesday evening I’ve been hobbling around my house and pretending I can ignore the fact that only one of my lower limbs is working properly. Yes, like many …
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That’s right – we be pumpin’ the el-bees in the a.m. Which is about as cool as three soccer moms (okay technically a karate mom, a dance mom and a soccer mom) in the ‘burbs are going to get. I love us. This morning found me, per my usual, sneaking into my morning fitness class …
Do you like scary movies? Whether it is due to a bad experience with The Changeling (not the Angelina Jolie version but the really old 80’s one) or just an overactive imagination (seriously, we watched it for an 8th grade birthday party and the front door blew open the exact same moment the front door …
Read more “The Furor Over Frankenfoods – Do You Worry About Eating Genetically Modified Foods?”
