I've had big frames, and I've had small frames. But lately I've come to think: if you have to wear glasses, you might as well flaunt them. So I'm totally in love with nerd glasses. They seem to say: 'Yeah, I'm wearing glasses! And don't I look intelligent!' So when I got the chance to...
Hubby slipped on the stairs in the train station, while trying to race the other travelers for the exit. Obviously this is not without risk, because he wears Birkenstocks come rain, snow, icy sleet, hail or shine. Hence he is now sporting an eye decorated with all kinds of unfashionable colours. Every day he studies...
'You can't outrun the long arm of the law!' Kenny Rogers warned, but how far do the arms, and influence of a mom reach? After lots of struggling and hitting each other with different research results, psychologists finally agree: a child's development is equally determined by parenting, environment and genetics. Yet as a mom I...
Wordless Wednesday
Some fights are just waiting to happen. Yesterday evening, hubby and I were watching Medium and Ghost Whisperer. And we got into this deep, and meaningful discussion about which one was the better series. Hubby felt compelled to share I had a lot more in common with Allison in Medium, than with Melinda from Ghost...
I love blogging and I love getting comments even more. But I have to say: I only like comments of people who actually bother to read the post they comment on. And I absolutely hate comments like: 'Hi, I'm a new follower, will you follow me?' Those comments, I throw straight into the trash. Just...
I was starving for some positive reinforcement, so against my better judgement I asked hubby: 'Please say something nice to me?' In my defense: it had been a very long day, and the kids had been awful! Hubby immediately got that familiar deer-in-the-headlight look, while I waited patiently. Minutes went by, and the silence got...
Wordless Wednesday
• Play Beauty parlor, with you as the client. Be sure to remove all permanent markers first! • Play hairsalon, with you as the client. Remove all scissors that still work! • Play Tattoo parlor, with you as the client. You had already removed all permanent markers. Right?! • Let your kids read to yóú,...
I was working, blogging away, minding my own business when my eldest daughter declared in triumphant tones: 'Sybil and I aren't the only ones anymore who think you look like professor Trewlawney!' 'Huh?' 'My friend Mary thinks so too!' When I got the first report, about my similarity to this Harry Potter character, I of...
