Motherwise Cracks

Sometimes I decide not to look forward to an event because it might not turn out as well as I had imagined that it would. Such was the case with the wine tour we were going on last weekend for my daughter’ s birthday. Her sister had it all set up and they even let [...]

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I don’t have to eat my hat, not that I felt I was in danger of having to do so.
I got the call today while I was out. Luckily that made it be recorded on my answering machine for all posterity to listen to.
Where was the missing notebook that I was too blind to see? [...]

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Went through the old campus today as I had to drive my son to a place across the street. How appropriate that I be there this weekend, the anniversary of the Bilzzard of ‘77. I was at Buffalo State at that time and lived through the -60 degree wind chill and snow up to the [...]

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It’s two days and counting until I will be back to an empty nest.
As I sit here on a Friday night at 11:20 PM with my hot date asleep since 9 PM on the easy chair across from me, I contemplate how this exciting pace of life will slow down when my son returns to [...]

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I was looking forward to the Christmas holidays as I thought it would be nice to have my son home for five weeks. He’s been home for two days but not really. Gone the first day visiting his girlfriend for the whole day, came back to eat, and now away at his friend’s house overnight. [...]

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I decided to check out my Facebook page and noticed that my niece had some new photos posted. I looked and low and behold, the moldy bread we found in my fridge yesterday was there. This loaf was dated to be eaten before June 23.
See what happens when your child goes off to college? All [...]

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I was sent on a mission.  My daughter’s computer died and I was to get the system restore disks to her. Following the directions to find them in her things was like being on a Lewis and Clark expedition, but I found the box in her closet.
No disks in the box. As I read the manual, [...]

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Sometimes you just can’t make these things up. Like this story in last night’s paper where a man in a cow costume drove nto the river (after some partying). I had to laugh several times as it was just a comedy of errors complete with the video surveillance copy of his drive into the drink accidentally erased. [...]

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