Motherwise Cracks

Someone broke into Gram’s house again and stole her pain meds for the second time this month. The kids were scared for her so they spent the Christmas eve sleeping over at her house so that she wouldn’t be afraid. It was the first time in 25 years that we didn’t have anyone knocking at [...]

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I have always hated the song “Dominick the Christmas Donkey“. The sound of it was like fingers on a chalkboard to me, but this video is a hoot. Now I can actually listen,  as long as I can watch. Oh that Dominick – what an ass! I want a paper mustache like this for Christmas.

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For Christmas this year, my brother-in-law decided to replace the set of kitchen cabinets in my mother-in-law’s kitchen.  It was so generous for him to do that but since he lives out of town, my husband got the job of ripping out her old set of cupboards. In the process, he discovered the reason she [...]

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Turns out that this Christmas might be the season of drama. In addition to the breakup of one of my kids that has upset her so much that now she is not able to eat more than a mouse (which has NEVER happened to me), someone broke into my mother-in-law’s house and took her pain [...]

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When you send your kids to school, you never expect that it will become a never ending stream of requests for money. Not only do they make your little children go out selling one sheet of wrapping paper for $10 to unsuspecting relatives, frozen cookie dough at $15 a pop and boxes galore of chocolate [...]

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