Motherwise Cracks

Because we live here, and perhaps too much. And because this is a photo of the dryer. Yep, this is a dryer. My husband loves to hang his laundry in front of the wood burning stove. It does save money but I think it’s more like a vestigial camping organ left in his body. I [...]

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For some reason I double scheduled myself on Parents Weekend at college and now my husband will be off on his own.  I am going to the Adirondacks with some friends, which is nice, but why in the world when I have a ton of boring weekends, does this particular one happen to be Parents [...]

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I started out feeling a bit proud of my husband. He actually recognized that is winter coat was getting older and shabby looking, and donated it to a charity shop. Sidebar – Some of you may not know that some (and I mean most) men aren’t always as perceptive about their clothing. “Some” of them [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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