Motherwise Cracks

For my birthday today, my girls took me out for a mani-pedi combo, so I am sporting pretty new finger and toe nails. It was very nice.
My husband made lasagne, which takes him the whole day. He does the same dinner for us every year. It was delicious. I was happy too that my daughter [...]

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My husband is the kind that can’t sit still. I can sit still for hours. In his quest to keep busy, he found some fantastically loaded elderberry bushes, plucked them clean and brought home the fruits of his hunting and gathering expedition in the back field.
Sidebar – In the days before his chlosterol went sky high, [...]

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Yesterday was our wedding anniversary and I will tell you how many years but first I must explain that I was a child bride, or that what people seem to think, and I am OK with that.
29 years. And I wasn’t really that young, but we joke about it because apparently I look somewhat younger [...]

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Rain is in the forecast for Sunday. Yep, that would be the day that we have invited 200 people over to the house for a party. Now the debate about getting a tent seems moot.
So I am getting ready for this party, baking something, and I just happen to mention to my husband that in [...]

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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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I lost my keys between Saturday afternoon and Monday morning. That’s pretty amazing considering they weight about 5 pounds and can displace 1/2 cup of water in sheer volume.
My husband was chiding me, making me feel inferior for always misplacing things like he is so perfect. Yes, the guy who can’t match his shirts to [...]

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Hubs decided to mow the acreage today as it’s nearly the end of summer and he wanted to be sure to be able to say he worked on a tractor this summer. Ex-farm boys have this thing about keeping up appearances. They still want to maintain their membership in the “I can still farm” club, [...]

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My husband is a frugal guy so he shocked the stuffing out of me when he ordered a turducken for about $75 to TEST it! Yes, a test. He is planning on buying 2, count ‘em, 2 of them to serve the extended family on our summer vacation. That’s about 30 people, mind you. The [...]

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