Drowning My Sorrows in Mini-Snickers

I’m on my 50th straight hour of solo twin duty and if it weren’t for the bag and a half of Halloween candy I’ve eaten I’d really have lost my shiz by now. I’m just 2 mini musketeers, 4 mini milky ways, and 7 mini snickers away from my pre-pregnancy weight, I can feel it! [...]

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Known Gnomes and Unknown Gnomes

The Matag Man is here seeing to the gnome situation, and I’m hiding in the living room. I don’t like to disturb people when they’re working, especially where gnomes are involved.
The gnome that he’s here about is particularly disruptive. Around 1am Sunday morning, right around the time Lulu finally went to sleep after screaming bloody [...]

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Riots, Mayhem, Babies crawling naked through the jungle…

There is a large department store on this island, everyone in America knows its name. We’ve all been there too. Its huge, its sprawling, its everywhere in the States, and I used to be extremely snooty about it. I don’t shop there, I’d say. That store is what’s wrong with America. That was back when [...]

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Cockroaches and temporary single-parenthood

I met another Mommy and her way too adorable 3yr old daughter for a picnic yesterday.  We shared our cockroach stories of woe and laughed about the disgustingness of it all. Geckos in the house we can live with, giant centipedes even, with their poisonous legs, but the dreaded flying cockroach- no way.
Her cockroach initiation [...]

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