My two daughters refuse to sleep without one: a bra. I don't get it! Isn't the night a wonderful opportunity to free your girls from their tight containment? I never wear my bra during the night. I just don't like to feel confined during the night. Wearing your bra at night is good for the...
Panting with admiration I watched a documentary featuring a father of 12. He stayed so cool, even though havoc surrounded him! So that's how to do it! I sat on the edge of my couch when he told the audience how he maintained his cool under the pressure of such a big family. His precise...
Source image: Shutterstock 'I don't want you looking at my timeline!' It sounds like a line from a futuristic science fiction movie, but I swear it's straight from my daily life as a mom in the year 2016. Kind of eavesdropping Last Friday I was busy in the kitchen, having my cake and eating it...
Yesterday I was trying to do some thrifty shopping in a local thrift store. And I spotted the most beautiful little garden bench. Admittedly, the price wasn't all that thrifty because it cost a whopping 194 USD, but it was love at first sight. Veto... Unfortunately I had my first love with me, and he...
It's definitely one of the things I find most annoying about my husband. Whenever I'm tired, he's even móre tired. To cope with this frustration I put it in a cartoon. Do you recognize this?
Failing to plan, is planning to fail, the saying goes. But how about just planning to fail? Planning for failure My youngest son has to do a book report this year, and unlike his two older brothers he's already carefully planning for it. 'I chose Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, mommy,' he smiled....
Who says you can't wear Birkenstocks during Winter?! Come rain, snow or icy sleet, my husband always wears his Birkenstocks. As you can see in the picture: if it's snowing he just puts some sandwich bags around his Birkenstocks to keep his feet nice and dry. And it seems like he has become kind of...
It's one of those things I dread the most: my washing machine breaking down. Because with five teenagers in the house, there's always a lot of laundry waiting to get done. And if I so much as slack off for óne day, that laundry immediately will start to grow, and grow and grow. Until it...
I found the perfect present for my hubby: Bonny Becker's children's book: The Sniffles for Bear (Bear and Mouse). It's like giving him a self-portrait! I'm so terribly ill Because whenever hubby gets sick, he acts like Bear. Whining and acting like he's on death's door. And just like Bear, he doesn't really wánt to...
Back in the old days people used to huddle together around a fire. But nowadays they huddle around the tv! But where to put the tv?, so it doesn't mess up your feng shui and 'flow' of the room?! TV's are challenging to your interior As furniture goes, the tv has always been 'difficult'. When...
